| Joshua Cooper Ramo | |
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Photo by Joi Ito |
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| Born | New Mexico USA |
| Known for | The Beijing Consensus, The Age of The Unthinkable |
Joshua Cooper Ramo was a former senior editor and foreign editor of Time magazine and later Managing Director at Kissinger Associates, the consulting firm of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger [1]
Ramo was raised in Los Ranchos, New Mexico, on the Rio Grande River.[2] He began flying in his late teens and wrote a book about his experiences as a competitive aerobatic pilot[3].
He joined Time in 1996 as the youngest senior editor in the magazine's history and went on to become its foreign editor and assistant managing editor. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders of Tomorrow, the Asia Society's Asia21 group, as well as a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a cofounder of the U.S.-China Young Leaders Forum. Ramo is a member of the Board of Directors of Starbucks and FedEx.[4]
Ramo is well-known for inventing the term "Beijing Consensus" through a paper he wrote in 2004 of that title.[5] He also served as on-air analyst for NBC during the 2008 Beijing Olympics and shared an Emmy and Peabody award for his work on the Opening Ceremony alongside Matt Lauer and Bob Costas.
He is also the author of New York Times best-selling The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do about It [6] and No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport. [7]
Ramo authored the now notorious article "The Committee to Save the World", which appeared in the February 15, 1999 issue of Time magazine and which heaped lavish praise on the now disgraced Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers. Critics including Paul Krugman and Robert Scheer have derided this piece for setting a new low in servile sycophancy in mainstream journalism. According to Scheer's book "The Great American Stickup", Rubin was so taken with Ramo's fawning portrait of him that he had the cover of that issue of Time framed and hung on the wall of his office at Citibank.
In 2004, Ramo published ""Beijing Consensus" which identified a "China model" of economic development. [8]
In 2006, Ramo conducted an extensive analysis of China's international image, relying on surveys of more than 25,000 people around the world in 40 countries, including China.[9].
In 2010, Ramo introduced the concept of "Co-evolution" as a future model for US-China relations. Ramo argued that US-China relations had entered a new era where old ideas such as "containment" or "engagement" no longer made sense. He articulated a new model for ties between the two countries. [10]