Joel Kurtzman

Who is Joel Kurtzman?

Joel Kurtzman is a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan think tank. His research focuses on globalization and its risks and has been published widely. He is also Executive Director of the Milken Institute's SAVE Project which focuses on energy security, climate change and alternative energy. Kurtzman is a member of the Board of Directors of Revolution Prep, and a member of the Editorial Board of MIT Sloan Management Review. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Wharton School's SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management and to the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Davis.

Kurtzman was the Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Business Review and a member of the editorial board of Harvard Business School Publishing. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of Strategy + Business magazine, where he first coined the term "Thought Leader". Kurtzman is Editor-in-Chief of Korn Ferry's Briefings on Talent & Leadership magazine.

Kurtzman was also a business editor and columnist at The New York Times.

Best known for his work on the intersection between economics and business, Kurtzman has authored, co-authored or edited 20 books and hundreds of general and scholarly articles. His widely cited book, The Death Of Money, was made into television documentaries in the U.S., and in Japan.