Nathan Gardels is a senior adviser at the Nicolas Berggruen Institute. He is the founding editor of New Perspectives Quarterly and has served as editor of Global Viewpoint and Nobel Laureates Plus (services of Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media) since 1989. These services have a worldwide readership of 35 million in 15 languages.Gardels has written for The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Harper's and the New York Review of Books, as well as Corriere della Sera, El Pais, Le Figaro, Straits Times, Yomiuri Shimbun, O'Estado de Sao Paulo, The Guardian, Die Welt and many others.Since 1986, Gardels has been a Media Fellow of the World Economic Forum (Davos). He has lectured at the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) in Rabat, Morocco, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, China. Gardels was a founding member at the New Delhi meeting of Intellectuels du Monde and a visiting researcher at the USA-Canada Institute in Moscow before the end of the Cold War. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council.From 1983 to 1985, Gardels was executive director of the Institute for National Strategy where he conducted policy research at the USA-Canada Institute in Moscow, the People's Institute of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, the Swedish Institute in Stockholm and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Bonn. Prior to this, he spent four years as adviser to Governor Jerry Brown of California on economic affairs, with an emphasis on public investment, trade issues, the Pacific Basin and Mexico.Gardels holds degrees in Theory and Comparative Politics and in Architecture and Urban Planning from UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Lilly, and two sons, Carlos and Alexander.