Founded in 2021 by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, with program chairs Fareed Zakaria and Jared Cohen, and integrated into SCSP in 2024.
Technologist, entrepreneur and philanthropist; CEO and Chairman of Google from 2001 to 2011. He chaired the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and, in 2021, launched and chairs the Special Competitive Studies Project.
Philanthropist and investor, president of the Schmidt Family Foundation and of Schmidt Ocean Institute. Her work spans clean energy, healthy food systems, ocean health and human rights.
Host of Fareed Zakaria GPS for CNN Worldwide, columnist for The Washington Post, contributing editor for The Atlantic, and bestselling author.
President of Global Affairs and Co-Head of Applied Innovation at Goldman Sachs; founder and former CEO of Jigsaw at Alphabet, and previously a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff.
Administrative support for the International Strategy Forum is provided by the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP). SCSP is a non-partisan, non-profit initiative with a mission to make recommendations to strengthen the long-term competitiveness of the United States, and its allies and partners, for a future where artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies reshape our national security, economy, and society. SCSP is a private foundation located in Arlington, VA, and a subsidiary of The Eric & Wendy Schmidt Operating Foundation, also a private foundation.