Jonathan Tepperman is a Senior Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning policy journal The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas From the Bush Institute. In this role, he brings together leading experts and writers from around the world and works to further establish The Catalyst as a leading publication providing nonpartisan and insightful analyses of pressing national and global issues.
Jonathan Tepperman is a Senior Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning policy journal The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas From the Bush Institute. In this role, he brings together leading experts and writers from around the world and works to further establish The Catalyst as a leading publication providing nonpartisan and insightful analyses of pressing national and global issues.
Prior to joining the Bush Institute, Tepperman was the Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy magazine. He has also served as Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Editor of Newsweek’s international edition. He is the author the best-selling 2016 book The Fix: How Countries Use Crises to Solve the World’s Worst Problems. A noted public speaker, author, and policy expert, Tepperman writes regularly for a long list of publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He has interviewed a long list of world leaders, including Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Shinzo Abe, and is one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Bashar al-Assad in Damascus during the Syrian civil war. His TED Talk, The Risky Politics of Progress, has been viewed more than a million times.
Tepperman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. He has a bachelor’s in English from Yale University, a master’s in jurisprudence from Oxford, and a master’s of international law from New York University. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
