
On January 12th, 2011, Stanford in Government hosted Jared Cohen ’04 for a talk on “21st Century Statecraft” in Cubberley Auditorium. SIG Chair Valentin Bolotnyy ’11 opened the event, in which Cohen, who is a SIG alum, discussed his time at Stanford and as the youngest ever member of the National Security Council, where he played a role in both the Bush and Obama administrations. Cohen is now head of Google Ideas, the new Google think/do tank. The event was co-sponsored by the Speaker’s Bureau.