Jonathan Tepperman Named Vice President, International Program, of Carnegie Corporation of New York

New York, New York, May 4, 2026 – Jonathan Tepperman has been named vice president, International Program, of Carnegie Corporation of New York, effective May 13, 2026. A foreign policy expert who has helped lead some of the country’s most influential publications, Tepperman will oversee the foundation’s International Program focused on international peace and security.

At Carnegie, the largest philanthropic funder of global security programs in the United States, Tepperman will develop and implement strategic grantmaking with an annual budget of over $70 million. Carnegie currently funds in the areas of preventing and managing conflict, the effects of mass migration, and the growing impact of non-state actors.

Most recently, Tepperman was a senior fellow with the George W. Bush Institute, following roles as editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy, managing editor of Foreign Affairs, and deputy editor of Newsweek’s international editions.

“Jonathan has spent a career thinking and writing about global issues, as well as canvassing and developing ideas about international peace and security,” said Dame Louise Richardson, president of the foundation and past head of the University of Oxford. “He has always sought to bridge the gap between ideas and actions by harnessing insights from academics to inform public discourse. I look forward to working with him as he brings this experience to bear on our grantmaking, as together we seek to advance Andrew Carnegie’s mission of building a more peaceful world.”

Under Richardson’s leadership, the foundation’s overarching goal is reducing political polarization through the issues that Andrew Carnegie considered most important: education, democracy, and peace. The International Program’s portfolio also includes two longstanding areas of support aimed at reducing nuclear risks and advancing higher education and research in Africa.

“Carnegie Corporation of New York is an institution that I have long admired for its vital contributions to peacebuilding and conflict prevention,” said Tepperman. “I’m thrilled to be joining the organization during these turbulent times for international relations, and I am profoundly grateful to Dame Louise and her stellar team for giving me the chance to help shape its next chapter.”

Tepperman has over 25 years in international policy journalism. At the George W. Bush Institute, he was editor-in-chief of The Catalyst, a domestic and foreign policy journal. As editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, Tepperman developed and published consequential articles by heads of state, Nobel laureates, practitioners, and emerging scholars.

Tepperman is the author of The Fix: How Countries Use Crises to Solve the World’s Worst Problems (Random House, 2016). He has written for major publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and The New Republic. His TED Talk, “The Risky Politics of Progress,” has been viewed more than a million times.

A graduate of Yale College, Tepperman obtained an MA in law from University of Oxford and an LLM in international law from New York University School of Law.