Joshua Cooper Ramo

Ramo was born on born December 14, 1968. Rаmo was rаised in Los Ranchos, New Mexico, on the Rio Grande. He began flying in his late teens and later wrote the book No Visible Horizon about his experiences as a competitive aerobatic pilot. Ramo holds a bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Chicago and a master's degree in economics from New York University.

Journalism career

Ramo began his career as a journalist at Newsweek in 1993. He joined Time magazine in 1996 when he was hired by Walter Isaacson. Ramo oversaw the magazine’s digital operations and ran Time's digital magazine while also covering technology. In 1998, he became foreign editor of Time, overseeing the magazine's international coverage. He was the youngest senior editor and foreign editor in the history of Time Magazine. During his tenure at the magazine, he wrote more than 20 domestic and international cover stories.

Business career

Prompted by an interest in business and global affairs, Ramo moved to Beijing in 2002. He worked with John L. Thornton, a former president of Goldman Sachs, in China from 2003-2005, when he joined Kissinger Associates as managing director. In 2011, he became vice chairman of Kissinger Associates. In 2015, he became co-chief executive officer.

Fluent in Mandarin, Ramo currently divides his time between Beijing and New York, and serves as advisor to large corporations and investors with a particular focus on large-scale cross-border transactions. He additionally serves on the Board of Directors of Starbucks and FedEx.`

Ramo's contact with Jeffrey Epstein

In April 2023, The Wall Street Journal reported that Ramo held "more than a dozen meetings" with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein "from 2013 to 2017". The WSJ's review of emails, calendars, and other documents belonging to the late Epstein showed many of his meetings with Ramo took place in Epstein's New York townhouse after 5 p.m. In September 2013, Epstein and Ramo met at the townhouse for breakfast with "former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak". On a separate occasion they met with Ariane de Rothschild who then served as the chief executive of the Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild Group.

In response to a Reuters inquiry, Ramo stated that he met with Epstein in New York, along with various business figures and scientists, about 14 times between 2013 and 2016 and visited Epstein's ranch once for a 2014 lunch on behalf of professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, who were present. "I deferred to the due diligence of the institutions involved, assuming that his presence signaled he had been appropriately vetted," Ramo told Reuters. "I feel a deep sense of grief for the survivors of his crimes."