Jared Cohen
Jared Cohen is the President of Global Affairs and co-head of Applied Innovation at Goldman Sachs, where he joined as a partner in 2022 and is a member of the firm’s Management Committee and the Firmwide Client Franchise Committee. Before Goldman Sachs, he was CEO of Jigsaw, which he founded at Alphabet Inc. in 2016, and focused on applying frontier technology to the internet’s greatest challenges. Prior to that, he was Google’s first director of ideas and chief advisor to Google CEO and executive chairman Eric Schmidt. From 2006 to 2010, he served as a member of the Secretary of State’s policy planning staff and as a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. He is a New York Times bestselling author of six books, most recently Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America. He has been named to the Time 100 list, Foreign Policy’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers,” and Fortune’s “40 Under 40.” Jared received his B.A. from Stanford University and his M.Phil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He lives in New York City with his wife and three daughters.