Thomas P.M. Barnett is a strategic planner who has worked in national security affairs since the end of the Cold War. Currently, Tom is the Executive Vice President and Chief Strategist for the Center for America China Partnership in Beijing, China, and Chief Strategist for Wikistrat, an Israeli-based global strategic planning and collaboration company.  Since 2005, Tom has served as Senior Managing Director of Enterra Solutions, LLC, a strategic advisory and technology firm. He has also operated his own consulting practice (Barnett Consulting LLC) since 1998.

A New York Times-bestselling author and a nationally-known public speaker who's been profiled on the front-page of the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Barnett is in high demand within government circles as a forecaster of global conflict and an expert of globalization, as well as within corporate circles as a management consultant and conference presenter. An award-winning professor,

Dr. Barnett has written for Esquire, Wired, National Review, and the Washington Post, and has been interviewed by Rolling Stone, The Economist, Time, BBC World Service, CNN, Fox News and numerous foreign media. Tom Barnett has been described by U.S. News & World Report's Michael Barone as "one of the most important strategic thinkers of our time."

Dr. Barnett is best known as the author of Great Powers: America and the World After Bush (2009), Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating (2005) and The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century (2004). Described by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius as "a combination of Tom Friedman on globalization and Karl von Clausewitz on war," the wide-ranging volumes have generated an enormous amount of reaction from around the world, leading to foreign editions in Japan, Turkey and China, as well as profiles in London's Daily Telegraph, Denmark's Borsen, and Switzerland's Welt Woche (among many others).

In addition to his speaking and consulting, Tom Barnett is a prolific blogger on current global events, where he counts among his tens of thousands of readers representatives from all the major U.S. military commands, virtually all U.S. federal departments, numerous foreign governments, and major research and corporate entities the world over. Speaking recently in South Africa at a mining conference

Tom has been a Contributing Editor for Esquire magazine since the beginning of 2005, and he currently writes a weekly online column for World Politics Review and contributes regularly to Esquire.com's "The Politics Blog."

From 2005 to 2009, Tom wrote a syndicated print column for Scripps Howards News Service, and served as a visiting scholar at the University of Tennessee’s Howard Baker Center for Public Policy and a visiting strategist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

From 1998 through 2004, Prof. Barnett was a Senior Strategic Researcher and Professor in the Warfare Analysis & Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College, Newport RI, where he taught and served--in a senior advisory role--with military and civilian leaders in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, Central Command, Special Operations Command, and Joint Forces Command. From November 2001 to June of 2003, Dr. Barnett was on temporary assignment as the Assistant for Strategic Futures, Office of Force Transformation (OFT), Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he worked with (then) OFT Director Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski (USN, ret.) on a cluster of strategic concepts that link change in the international security environment to the imperative of transforming U.S. military capabilities to meet future threats.

Dr. Barnett has published a number of articles explaining these strategic concepts, which he presents comprehensively in "what may be history's most famous Pentagon briefing," declared syndicated columnist Jack Kelly. Dr. Barnett has delivered this brief well over a thousand times to a cumulative wordwide audience of more than several hundred thousand government officials, military officers, industry and think tank representatives and opinion leaders.

At the Naval War College, Dr. Barnett also served as Director of the New Rule Sets Project, an ambitious effort to draw new "maps" of power and influence in the world economy. The project was conducted in partnership with the Wall Street broker-dealer firm Cantor Fitzgerald, which hosted three full-day "decision event" workshops atop World Trade Center 1 (at the Windows on the World restaurant). Prior to this study, Dr. Barnett directed the Year 2000 International Security Dimension Project.

Before joining the College in August 1998, Dr. Barnett served as a Project Director in both the Center for Naval Analyses and the Institute for Public Research, the two major divisions of The CNA Corporation (CNAC), a private research firm located in Alexandria, VA. His two major accomplishments during his CNAC career were:

• Serving as a member of the Naval Force Capabilities Planning Effort that developed the new strategic concepts eventually published in the Navy’s White Paper . . . From The Sea, the first draft of which he co-authored along with a handful of senior naval officers
• Pioneering and managing CNAC’s contractual relationship with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
  

CURRENTLY:

• Executive Vice President, Chief Strategist, Center for America China Partnership
• Chief Strategist, Wikistrat
• Senior Managing Director, Enterra Solutions
• Partner, IEG Strategies LLC
• Contributing Editor, Esquire Magazine
• Columnist, World Politics Review
• Blogger, Thomas P.M. Barnett's Globlogization
• Contributor, Esquire.com's The Politics Blog
• Public Speaker, The Merit Agency (jen@themeritagency.com)

EDUCATION:

• B.A. in International Relations and Russian Literature, University of Wisconsin, 1984
• A.M. in Soviet Union Program, Harvard University, 1986
• Ph.D. in Political Science, Harvard University, 1990

BOOKS:

• Great Powers: America and the World After Bush (2009)
• Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating (2005)
• The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century (2004)