Gordon Feller is Global Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. His nearly 500 magazine articles have been published by World Bank, U.N., World Economic Forum, The Financial Times of London, The Economist, TIME, Fortune, ThomsonReuters and S&P. He’s served as director at Cisco’s global HQ, and before that at IBM, Bechtel and Lockheed. Born in New York, he has Cum Laude degrees from Columbia, which awarded him the Gov. Lehman Fellowship, the Wallach Fellowship and the Dean’s Fellowship. Later, he won the U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield Fellowship and the Japan Foundation’s Prime Minister Abe Fellowship.