David Rothkopf

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David J. Rothkopf (born 24 December 1955) is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, specializing in U.S. foreign policy and economic strategy, as well as an international business consultant and professor. He served as the Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade during the administration of Bill Clinton. After leaving Commerce, Rothkopf became managing director of Kissinger and Associates in January 1996.^[1]

As a Carnegie fellow, he wrote Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power, the leading volume on the National Security Council. In addition, he is chairman and CEO of The Rothkopf Group, LLC, a consulting firm, and Garten Rothkopf LLC, a firm that focuses on emerging markets. He previously was a founder and CEO of Intellibridge, a strategic analysis firm in Washington D.C., United States. A prolific writer, Rothkopf has authored more than 150 articles on international issues for a variety of publications, most recently for the Washington Post and Intellibridge's Homeland Security Monitor. Rothkopf's new book is Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making. He is a 1977 graduate of Columbia College and attended Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has also been an invited speaker and broadcasted on radio NPR.