Bonus Episode: Will the Middle East Be Unrecognizable? - with Jared Cohen

Published: May 19, 2024, 9:45 p.m.

b'Jared Cohen is Co-Head of the Office of Applied Innovation and President of Global Affairs at Goldman Sachs. He also serves on the Management Committee of the firm. Jared is also the most senior Goldman executive to visit Israel since October 7. But Jared did not just visit Israel \\u2013 and meet with a range of senior Israeli political leaders and security officials \\u2013 he also was in Ramallah, in the West Bank to meet Palestinian Authority officials and Jordan \\u2013 just before Jordan participated in the extraordinary multi-national defense of Israel, despite tense relations between the Israeli and Jordanian governments. \\n\\nAnd since then, Jared has traveled extensively throughout the Persian Gulf States, where he has a long history of deep relationships. \\n\\nIt was interesting to get a fresh take from Jared on this region in transition.\\n\\nPrior to joining Goldman, Jared was an executive at Alphabet, before which he was Google\\u2019s first Director of Ideas and Chief Advisor to Google\\u2019s then CEO and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. From 2006 to 2010, he served as a member of the Secretary of State\\u2019s Policy Planning Staff and as a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.\\n\\nJared is a New York Times bestselling author of six books, including "One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide," "Children of Jihad," "The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Business, and our Lives," which he co-authored with Eric Schmidt, and, most recently, "Life After Power: Seven Presidents and their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House," which you can order here: https://tinyurl.com/5xm8v7ft\\n\\nOR\\n\\nhttps://tinyurl.com/2ua6mzjd\\n\\nPaper discussed in this episode: "The rise of geopolitical swing states" -- https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/the-rise-of-geopolitical-swing-states.html'