Lance Knobel

I've had a varied, eclectic international career at the intersection of business, geopolitics and technology. I live in Berkeley, California, and work as a writer and a curator/creator of content for business summits.

I grew up near Chicago, and was educated at Princeton and Oxford. I started my career writing about architecture and design in London. I took a left turn into business journalism as Editor-in-Chief of Management Today. I ran a business magazine publishing company in Italy before returning to London to run the joint venture that published the World Economic Forum's magazine, World Link.

I ran the program of the WEF's famous Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in 1999-2000. I worked as an advisor in Tony Blair's Downing Street think tank, the Strategy Unit, in 2001-2002.

Most recently, I created and ran the program for the inaugural New York Forum. I'm deeply immersed in conceiving the 2011 New York Forum.

My family and I moved to Berkeley in 2005, where we love the climate, the food and the extraordinary outdoors. I'm a passionate tennis player.