As an advisor to government officials, business leaders, philanthropists and activists, Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld helps repair democracies confronting big changes. As a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, she focuses on countries facing violence, corruption and other problems of poor governance.
In 2010, TIME magazine named Kleinfeld one of the top 40 political leaders under 40 for her decade of work as the founding CEO of the Truman National Security Project, which recruits and trains leaders to advance policies that enhanced global security, democracy and human dignity. In 2011, Hillary Clinton appointed Kleinfeld to the State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board, which advised the Secretary of State quarterly. Kleinfeld is the author of several books, including A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security.
In an incredible session, speakers and performers laid out the biggest problems facing the world — from political and economic catastrophe to rising violence and deepfakes — and some new thinking on solutions. The event: TEDSummit 2019, Session 3: The Big Rethink, hosted by Corey Hajim and Cyndi Stivers When and where: Tuesday, July 23, […]
Continue readingWith TEDSummit 2019 just two months away, it’s time to unveil the first group of speakers that will take to the stage in Edinburgh, Scotland, from July 21-25. Three years ago, more than 1,000 members of the TED global community convened in Banff, Canada, for the first-ever TEDSummit. We talked about the fracturing state of […]
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