Jonathan Tepperman is vice president, International Program, of Carnegie Corporation of New York. He is responsible for leading, developing, and implementing the program’s grantmaking strategy to advance peace in an evolving world.
Before joining Carnegie, Tepperman had a long career as a writer and editor. Among other roles, he served as editor-in-chief of The Catalyst (a journal of ideas published by the George W. Bush Institute), editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy, managing editor of Foreign Affairs, and deputy editor of Newsweek’s international editions.
The best-selling author of The Fix: How Countries Use Crises to Solve the World’s Worst Problems (Random House, 2016), Tepperman has written regularly for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Newsweek, and The New Republic. He is the coeditor of the books The U.S. vs. al Qaeda, Iran and the Bomb, and The Clash of Ideas. He has spoken on foreign policy at the World Economic Forum in Davos and the Council on Foreign Relations, and his TED Talk, “The Risky Politics of Progress,” has been viewed more than a million times.
Tepperman is a graduate of Yale College, where he earned his BA in English Literature with honors. He obtained an MA in law from Oxford University and an LLM in international law from New York University School of Law. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.