​Jonathan Tepperman is a journalist, author, editor, and global affairs analyst. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Catalyst and a Senior Fellow at the George W. Bush Institute. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy magazine and the author of the critically acclaimed book The Fix: How Countries Use Crises to Solve the World’s Worst Problems.

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Tepperman started his career working as a speechwriter at the United Nations and reporting from the Middle East. After studying English and then law, he joined Foreign Affairs as a junior editor, became Deputy Editor of Newsweek’s international edition, and then returned to Foreign Affairs as Managing Editor, where he spent six years before being named Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy. In 2023, he joined the Bush Institute. 

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Tepperman’s first book, The Fix, was called “an indispensable handbook” by The New York Times and was long-listed for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. His TED Talk, “The Risky Politics of Progress,” has been viewed more than a million times.

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Tepperman has written regularly for a long list of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Newsweek, The New Republic, and others, and served as a columnist at the International Herald Tribune and Newsweek. He has interviewed more than a dozen world leaders, including Bashar al Assad, Shinzo Abe, and Lula da Silva. He is the coeditor of the books The U.S. vs. al Qaeda (2011), Iran and the Bomb (2012), and The Clash of Ideas (2012).​

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Tepperman has a BA in English from Yale, an MA in jurisprudence from Oxford, and an LLM in law from New York University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a Fellow of the New York Institute of Humanities. He lives in Brooklyn.