Jared Cohen

President, Global Affairs; Co-Head, Office of Applied Innovation, Goldman Sachs

Jared is president of Global Affairs and co-head of the Goldman Sachs Global Institute, and is a member of the Management Committee and the Firmwide Client Franchise Committee. He joined Goldman Sachs as a partner in 2022.

Prior to joining the firm, Jared was chief executive officer of Jigsaw, which he founded at Alphabet Inc. in 2016. In this role, his work focused on applying frontier technology to the greatest challenges facing humanity. Prior to that, Jared was Google’s first director of Ideas and chief advisor to Google’s chief executive officer 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.

Jared 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, Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America, , Life After Power: Seven Presidents and their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House, and the forthcoming children's book Speaking of America: United States Presidents and the Words that Changed History.

Jared is a member of and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and also a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Jared earned a BA from Stanford University and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He speaks fluent Swahili.

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