Gordon LaForge is a senior policy analyst at New America working on the geopolitics and governance of emerging technologies like AI, international institutions, and the future of democracy. He is also a visiting faculty member at Stanford University's Leadership Academy for Development and at Arizona State University's Thunderbird School of Global Management.
LaForge was previously 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 US 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, The Washington Quarterly, The Daily Beast, The Diplomat, 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.