Gordon LaForge

Gordon LaForge is the Co-Director of the Power, People, and Planet initiative at New America. He leads projects and research on the geopolitics and governance of artificial intelligence, as well as global cooperation and institutions for an age of planetary challenges. He is also Senior Fellow for AI Policy at the Starling Institute and a visiting instructor at Oxford University, Stanford University’s Leadership Academy for Development, and Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management.

LaForge was previously a senior researcher at Princeton University’s Innovations for Successful Societies program, where he wrote on institution-building in fragile states. He has been a freelance journalist in Southeast Asia, a researcher with the predictive analytics and geopolitical risk firm Predata Inc., and a graduate intern at the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels working on nuclear policy planning in the Office of the Defense Advisor.

LaForge’s analysis and reporting have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg, and other publications. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was awarded two Fulbright fellowships to Indonesia. He holds an MPA in international relations from Princeton University and a BA in literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder.