Bonus Episode: Will the Middle East Be Unrecognizable? - with Jared Cohen

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

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Society, October 7, Hamas, War, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

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🗓️ 19 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Jared Cohen is Co-Head of the Office of Applied Innovation and President of Global Affairs at Goldman Sachs. He also serves on the Management Committee of the firm. Jared is also the most senior Goldman executive to visit Israel since October 7. But Jared did not just visit Israel – and meet with a range of senior Israeli political leaders and security officials – he also was in Ramallah, in the West Bank to meet Palestinian Authority officials and Jordan – just before Jordan participated in the extraordinary multi-national defense of Israel, despite tense relations between the Israeli and Jordanian governments. And since then, Jared has traveled extensively throughout the Persian Gulf States, where he has a long history of deep relationships. It was interesting to get a fresh take from Jared on this region in transition. Prior to joining Goldman, Jared was an executive at Alphabet, before which he was Google’s first Director of Ideas and Chief Advisor to Google’s then CEO and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. From 2006 to 2010, he served as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and as a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Jared is a New York Times bestselling author of six books, including "One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide," "Children of Jihad," "The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Business, and our Lives," which he co-authored with Eric Schmidt, and, most recently, "Life After Power: Seven Presidents and their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House," which you can order here: https://tinyurl.com/5xm8v7ft OR https://tinyurl.com/2ua6mzjd Paper discussed in this episode: "The rise of geopolitical swing states" -- https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/the-rise-of-geopolitical-swing-states.html

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0:00.0	It's 10 a.m. on the day.
0:09.0	It's 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 19th here in New York City. It's 5 o'clock p.m. am on
0:15.0	Sunday, New York City. It's 5 o'clock p.m. on Sunday in Israel.
0:18.0	Jared Cohn is co-head of the Office of Applied Innovation
0:22.0	and he's also president of Global Affairs at
0:25.9	Goldman Sachs. He also serves on the management committee of the firm.
0:30.7	Jared's also the most senior Goldman executive to visit Israel since October 7th.
0:37.2	But Jared did not just visit Israel and meet with a range of senior Israeli political leaders
0:42.4	and security officials while he was there
0:44.2	he was also in Ramallah in the West Bank where he met with leaders of the Palestinian
0:48.3	Authority including the just sworn in Prime Minister and he traveled to Jordan just before Jordan had
0:54.5	participated in an extraordinary multinational defense of Israel from the
0:59.9	attack from Iran despite tense relations between the Israeli and Jordanian governments.
1:06.0	And since then, Jared has traveled extensively throughout the Persian Gulf states, where he has a long
1:10.9	history of deep relationships and a pretty original analysis of what's happening in those countries.
1:18.8	So it was interesting to get a fresh take from Jared on this region in transition which in many respects will be unrecognizable
1:26.5	to a lot of our listeners at least in the way that Jared describes it. I should note that in this conversation we do not discuss the very recent developments in Iran with the
1:37.1	downing of a helicopter that was transporting Iran's president. We will get into that conversation in the next
1:44.4	episode which is with Haviv Rhetgour. As for this conversation prior to
1:49.8	joining Goldman Sachs, Jared Cohn was an executive at Alphabet, or Google, before which he was Google's first
1:56.2	director of ideas, their in-house think tank, and chief advisor to Google's then-CEO and executive
2:02.2	chairman Eric Schmidt. From 2006 to 2010
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