Nathan Gardels

Nathan Gardels

Born	(1952-12-22) December 22, 1952 United States
Education	B.A. in Theory and Comparative Politics; M.A. in Architecture and Urban Planning from UCLA
Occupation	Journalist, Author

Nathan Gardels (born December 22, 1952) is a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute on Governance and is editor-in-chief of The WorldPost.^[1] He has also been editor-in-chief of New Perspectives Quarterly (NPQ) since its founding in 1985 and of the Global Viewpoint Network and Nobel Laureates Plus (services of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media), which reaches 35 million readers in 15 languages, since 1989.^[2]

Journalism career

Gardels' articles and interviews have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Harper's, The Huffington Post, and the New York Review of Books, as well as Corriere della Sera, El Pais, Le Figaro, Straits Times, Yomiuri Shimbun, O Estado de S. Paulo, The Guardian, and Die Welt among others.^[3] Over the years Gardels has published feature interviews with numerous world leaders and political figures, including Nelson Mandela, Willy Brandt, Benazir Bhutto, Pervez Musharraf, Mohammed Mahathir, Hassan al-Turabi, Yasir Arafat, Muammar Gaddafi, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mikhail Gorbachev, George H.W. Bush, Margaret Thatcher, François Mitterrand, Lee Kuan Yew, Zhu Rongji, Qiao Shi, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Shintaro Ishihara, Hugo Chavez, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. He has also interviewed Chinese dissidents such as Wei Jingsheng, Fang Lizhi, Liu Binyan and Chen Guangchen.

Other global thinkers and philosophers Gardels has interviewed include Isaiah Berlin, Ivan Illich, Samuel P. Huntington, Leszek Kołakowski, Takeshi Umehara, Kato Shuichi and futurist Alvin Toffler as well as architects Rem Koolhaas and Frank Gehry, the undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Technologists include Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt. Scientists include Ian Wilmut, who cloned Dolly the Sheep, and genetic decoder Craig Venter.^[4]

Institutional Affiliations

From 1983 to 1985, Gardels was executive director of the Institute for National Strategy where he conducted policy research at the USA-Canada Institute in Moscow, the People's Institute of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, the Swedish Institute in Stockholm, and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Bonn. Prior to this, he spent four years as adviser to Governor Jerry Brown of California on economic affairs, with an emphasis on public investment, trade issues, the Pacific Basin and Mexico.^[3]

Since 1986, Gardels has been a Media Fellow of the World Economic Forum (Davos). He has lectured at the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) in Rabat, Morocco, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, China. Gardels was also a founding member at the New Delhi meeting of Intellectuels du Monde.^[5] Gardels has been a long-standing member of the Council on Foreign Relations.^[6] He is a senior fellow at the UCLA School of Public Affairs and a senior adviser at the Berggruen Institute on Governance.^[7] Since January 2014, he has served as editor-in-chief of The WorldPost.^[1]

Books

Gardels is the author of several books,^[8] including:

At Century’s End (Alti/McGraw Hill, 1996)
The Changing Global Order: World Leaders Reflect (Wiley-Blackwell, 1997)
American Idol After Iraq: Competing for Hearts and Minds in the Global Media Age, with Mike Medavoy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) and
Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way Between West and East with Nicolas Berggruen. A Financial Times best book of 2012^[9]

Personal

Gardels holds degrees in Theory and Comparative Politics and in Architecture and Urban Planning from UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Lilly, and two sons, Carlos and Alexander.

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