Author and Editor of THE AGE OF THE UNTHINKABLE to Speak at APAC

Who better to cap off a day focused on industry change and adaptation than author Joshua Cooper Ramo and editor Geoff Shandler. Ramo’s latest book, THE AGE OF THE UNTHINKABLE: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It, puts forth a radical new model for looking at the world, one that embraces its inherent unpredictability—and offers our best hope for dealing with problems and disasters as they emerge. 

Ramo draws upon history, economics, complexity theory, human immunology, psychology and his own extraordinary experiences and shares with audiences his strategies for survival in this time of unprecedented change.

APAC EXCLUSIVE
You won’t have another opportunity to hear Ramos and Schandler speak at BEA; this presentation is exclusively for APAC attendees. So, if you haven’t already done so, register today! Interested in attending this session and the cocktail hour that follows, but can’t make the full day? Contact APA Headquarters for details on how to participate.

SPEAKER PROFILES
Joshua Cooper Ramo
Joshua Cooper Ramo is Managing Director at Kissinger Associates, a strategic advisory firm. He is the youngest Managing Director in the history of the firm. Prior to entering the advisory business, Ramo was a journalist. He was the youngest Senior Editor and Foreign Editor in the history of TIME Magazine. Among his nearly two-dozen time cover stories were the 1997 Man of the Year profile of Andy Grove and an award-winning profile of Kofi Annan.

Ramo, a Mandarin speaker, divides his time between Beijing and New York City. The World Economic Forum has called him “one of China’s leading foreign-born scholars.” His papers have been widely distributed in China and abroad.

Trained as an economist, Ramo was raised in Los Ranchos, New Mexico. He has been, among other things, a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Asia21 Leaders Program, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders and Global Leaders for Tomorrow, an advisory board member of the Leaders Project and co-founder of the US-China Young Leaders Forum. He has spent two sabbaticals working at AIDS hospices in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. An avid pilot, Ramo has written a book, No Visible Horizon, about his experiences as a competitive aerobatic pilot. Ramo holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and a masters degree from New York University. His forthcoming book of geo-strategy will be published in seven languages in 2009.

Geoff Shandler
Recently voted one of PW's Top 40 under 40 in the publishing industry, Geoff Shandler began his career at Random House in 1993, and is now Editor in Chief of Little, Brown and Company. At Little, Brown, he oversees a team of nine editors and their assistants, helping to determine which books the company will publish. In addition to Joshua Cooper Ramo, among the many distinguished Little, Brown authors he has been fortunate to personally edit are John le Carre, Malcolm Gladwell, Jonathan Safran Foer, William Least Heat-Moon, James Bradley, Luis Alberto Urrea, Leonard Susskind, Robert Dallek, Jake Tapper, Sir Harold Evans and Robert Wright. He is the proud father of three children and is married to the biggest Chicago Bears fan in the history of Chicago Bears fans.