Nathan Gardels (born December 22, 1952) is the editor-in-chief of
Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the
Berggruen Institute
The Berggruen Institute is a Los Angeles-based think tank founded by Nicolas Berggruen.
History
In 2010, Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels sat down with a group of academics, business leaders, and political veterans in California to discus ...
. He previously served as editor-in-chief of
The WorldPost, a partnership with
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...
, as well as editor-in-chief of Global Viewpoint Network and Nobel Laureates Plus, both services of the
Los Angeles Times
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Syndicate/Tribune Media
). From 1985 to 2014 he also was editor of ''
New Perspectives Quarterly'', the journal of social and political thought published by Blackwell/Oxford.
Journalism career
Nathan Gardels has been editor of ''New Perspectives Quarterly'' since it began publishing in 1985. He has served as editor of Global Viewpoint, Global Economic Viewpoint and Nobel Laureates Plus since 1989. In 2014, Gardels became the editor-in-chief of The WorldPost, a digital publication stemming from a partnership between the Washington Post and the
Berggruen Institute
The Berggruen Institute is a Los Angeles-based think tank founded by Nicolas Berggruen.
History
In 2010, Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels sat down with a group of academics, business leaders, and political veterans in California to discus ...
. In 2020, The WorldPost evolved into a digital and print magazine called Noema, which covers philosophy, geopolitics, economics, technology and culture. Gardels is the editor-in-chief of https://www.noemamag.com/ Noema Magazine], published by the Berggruen Institute.
Gardels has written for
The Wall Street Journal, ''The'' ''Wall Street Journal'', ''
Los Angeles Times
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'', ''
New York Times
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'', ''
Washington Post
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'', ''
Harper's'', ''
U.S. News & World Report'' and ''
New York Review of Books''. He has also written for foreign publications, including Corriere della Sera, El Pais, Le Figaro, Yomiuri Shimbun, O’Estado de Sao Paulo, the Guardian, Die Welt and many others.
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
The Swedish Institute ( sv, Svenska institutet, ) is a government agency in Sweden with the responsibility to spread information about Sweden outside the country. It exists to promote Swedish interests, and to organise exchanges with other co ...
in Stockholm, and the
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Bonn. Prior to this, he spent four years as adviser to Governor
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected Secretary of S ...
of California on economic affairs, with an emphasis on public investment, trade issues, the Pacific Basin and Mexico.
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.
Gardels has been a long-standing member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a senior fellow at the
UCLA School of Public Affairs and a senior adviser at the
Berggruen Institute
The Berggruen Institute is a Los Angeles-based think tank founded by Nicolas Berggruen.
History
In 2010, Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels sat down with a group of academics, business leaders, and political veterans in California to discus ...
. Since January 2014, he has served as editor-in-chief of The WorldPost.
[WorldPost Launch Event Draws Global Leaders at Davos.](_blank)
The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
Books
Gardels is the author of several books, 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)
* ''Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way Between West and East'', with
Nicolas Berggruen. A
Financial Times
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best book of 2012
* ''Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism'', with
Nicolas Berggruen (University of California Press, 2019)
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.
References
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1952 births
Living people