Jared Cohen is the founder and CEO of Jigsaw at Google. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he was Google’s first Director of Ideas and chief advisor to Google's CEO and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. From 2006 to 2010 he served as a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff under both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Cohen is the New York Times bestselling author of five books, including Accidental Presidents, Children of Jihad, One Hundred Days of Silence, The New Digital Age, and the forthcoming Life After Power. He has been named to the "TIME 100" list, Foreign Policy's “Top 100 Global Thinkers,” Fortune’s “40 Under 40”, and Vanity Fair's "Next Establishment." He serves on the advisory boards for Allianz, ScaleAI, ASAPP, and Stanford University’s Freeman-Spogli Institute. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission and serves on the Secretary of State’s Foreign Policy Advisory Board. Cohen 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 speaks fluent Swahili.