Meet the Staff

David Rothkopf CEO

Susan Glasser Editor in Chief
Blake Hounshell Managing Editor
Benjamin Pauker Senior Editor (202) 728-7324
Cara Parks Deputy Managing Editor (202) 728-7334
Isaac Stone Fish Associate Editor (202) 728-7336
Uri Friedman Associate Editor (202) 728-7326
Joshua Keating Associate Editor (202) 728-7328
David Kenner Associate Editor
Preeti Aroon Copy Chief (202) 728-7329
Margaret Slattery Assistant Managing Editor (202) 728-7314
Lois Parshley Assistant Editor (202) 728-7339
Josh Rogin Staff Writer (202) 728-7338

Dennis Brack Creative Director (202) 728-7333
Erin Chrisinger Aulov Deputy Art Director

Tim Showers Web Director
Priya Nannapaneni Web Developer
Josh Mobley Web Developer

Amer Yaqub  Publisher (202) 728-7310
Frank Smith Director, Advertising (646) 495-3983
Kate Brown Director, Media and Marketing (202) 728-7316
Steve Pippin Director, Circulation (202) 728-7341
Matthew Curry Marketing & Circulation Manager (202) 728-7351
Ronald Woods Business & Office Manager (202) 728-7344

David Rothkopf is the CEO and Editor-at-Large of Foreign Policy. His new book, Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government and the Reckoning that Lies Ahead, is due out from Farrar, Straus & Giroux on March 1.  He is also the author of Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making, now available in over two dozen editions worldwide, and Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power, hailed by the New York Times as "the definitive history of the National Security Council."  

Rothkopf is President and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory firm specializing in transformational trends especially those associated with energy choice and climate change, emerging markets and global risk. He is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where he chairs the Carnegie Economic Strategy Roundtable. He was formerly chief executive of Intellibridge Corporation, managing director of Kissinger Associates and U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Policy.

Rothkopf has also taught international affairs and national security studies at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, has lectured widely and is the author of over 150 articles for leading publications worldwide.

Susan Glasser is editor in chief of Foreign Policy, the magazine of global politics, economics, and ideas. A longtime foreign correspondent and editor for the Washington Post, Glasser joined Foreign Policy in 2008 and has been spearheading the magazine’s ambitious expansion in print and online at ForeignPolicy.com. During her tenure, the magazine has won numerous awards for its innovative coverage, including two National Magazine Awards, and was recently selected as a finalist for “magazine of the year” by the American Society of Magazine Editors.

Glasser spent four years as co-chief of the Post's Moscow Bureau, throughout President Vladimir Putin's first term, during which time she also traveled extensively around the countries of the former Soviet Union. Together with her husband, New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker, she wrote Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution, which was published in 2005. Glasser also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a correspondent for the Post, including the battle of Tora Bora.

As an editor at the Post, Glasser held a number of senior positions, including assistant managing editor for national news and editor of Outlook, the Post's weekly section of commentary and ideas. She started at the Post in 1998 as deputy national editor overseeing the Monica Lewinsky investigation and subsequent impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Prior to that, Glasser worked for eight years at Roll Call, the preeminent newspaper covering the U.S. Congress, where she rose from an intern to be the top editor.

A graduate of Harvard University, Glasser lives in Washington with Baker and their son.

Blake Hounshell is managing editor at Foreign Policy, having formerly been Web editor. Hounshell oversees ForeignPolicy.com, FP's award-winning Web site, and commissions articles for the print magazine. He joined Foreign Policy in 2006 after living in Cairo, where he studied Arabic, missed his Steelers finally win one for the thumb, and worked for the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. A graduate of Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science, he has appeared on CNN, NPR, C-Span, WTOP, WNYC, and Al-Jazeera, among others. He speaks mangled Arabic and French. 

Ben Pauker is senior editor at Foreign Policy. Ben came to FP in May 2010 from World Policy Journal, where he was managing editor from 2007-2010. A native of New York, he grew up in Brazil, Australia, and Thailand and has written for Harper's, the Economist, and the Chicago Tribune, among other publications. He is the co-founder of the Gastronauts, the world’s largest adventurous-eating club, and, in the course of reporting but mainly to see if it was possible, has smuggled small arms out of Central Africa.  

Cara Parks is deputy managing editor at Foreign Policy. Prior to that she was the World editor at the Huffington Post. She is a graduate of Bard College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and has written for The New Republic, Interview, Radar, and Publishers Weekly, among others.

Issac Stone Fish is associate editor at Foreign Policy. Previously a Beijing correspondent for Newsweek, he wrote stories on such subjects as the Dalai Lama’s effect on international trade, China’s love affair with rogue states, and crystal meth in North Korea. His articles have also appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the Economist, and the Los Angeles Times.

Uri Friedman is associate editor at Foreign Policy. Before joining FP, he reported for the Christian Science Monitor, worked on corporate strategy for Atlantic Media, helped launch the Atlantic Wire, and covered international affairs for the site. A proud native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he studied European history at the University of Pennsylvania and has lived in Barcelona, Spain and Geneva, Switzerland. 

Joshua Keating is associate editor at Foreign Policy and the editor of the Passport blog. He has worked as a researcher, editorial assistant, and deputy Web editor since joining the FP staff in 2007. In addition to being featured in Foreign Policy, his writing has been published by the Washington Post, Newsweek International, Radio Prague, the Center for Defense Information, and Romania's Adevarul newspaper. He has appeared as a commentator on CNN International, C-Span, ABC News, Al Jazeera, NPR, BBC radio, and others. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he studied comparative politics at Oberlin College. 

Preeti Aroon, copy chief at Foreign Policy, copy-edits print and web articles to ensure they are grammatically correct, free of typos, and consistent with FP's house style. Formerly a copy editor and contributing columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader, Aroon holds a master's degree in public policy from Duke University and bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering and Spanish from the University of Kentucky. 

Margaret Slattery is assistant managing editor at Foreign Policy, working primarily on FP's print magazine. A Los Angeles native and recent graduate of Yale University, where she majored in English, she has written for The New Republic and has studied in Leon, Spain. 

David Kenner is an associate editor at Foreign Policy. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, he received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, also spending time studying in Turkey. He lived in Lebanon from 2006 to 2008, where he was a regular at various cafes and, in his spare time, reported on Middle East politics and pursued a master's degree from the American University of Beirut. He has written for The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, and Slate, among others. 

Lois Parshley is an assistant editor at Foreign Policy. She has also worked as a web producer for The Atlantic. A graduate of Middlebury College, she's written about her travels to Antarctica, Australia and the Emirates. Her writing and photography have been published at The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and Grist, among others.

Josh Rogin is staff writer for Foreign Policy, where he has written the daily Web column The Cable since September 2009. Prior to that, Josh covered defense and foreign policy for Congressional Quarterly and has also served as a national security reporter for Federal Computer Week magazine and Japan's leading daily newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun. A graduate of the George Washington University, Josh has also studied at Tokyo's Sophia University. He lived in Yokohama, Japan, from 2002-2003 and speaks conversational Japanese. Josh has also worked at the House International Relations Committee, the Embassy of Japan, and the Brookings Institution. He hails from Philadelphia. 

Amer Yaqub joined FP as publisher on Dec. 1, 2008. Previously, he was director of international advertising at the Washington Post. Amer also worked in a variety of marketing and sales positions at AT&T,Quaker Oats and ConAgra. He has been profiled in Fortune magazine, Voice of America,and Russia Today and was a guest speaker on marketing trends at George Mason University and Columbia Business School.

Amer has an MBA from Columbia University and a B.S. in economics from Carnegie Mellon University.