Gordon LaForge

Gordon LaForge

Co-Director, Power, People, and Planet Initiative — New America

Senior Fellow, Global AI Policy — Starling Institute

Gordon LaForge is a researcher, strategic advisor, and project leader specializing in the intersection of artificial intelligence, geopolitics, and international governance. He directs initiatives on institutional reform and redesigning global cooperation for an age of digital and planetary challenges.

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Writing

On Power

Essay

The Sun Is Setting on Indonesia’s Democratic Era

The New York Times · Feb 2024

Essay

Epic Fail: How a Corporate Duopoly Ruined Skiing

Slate Magazine · Dec 2023

Essay

Big Tech’s Foreign Policy Takeover

Tech Policy Press · May 2025

On Geopolitics

Essay

Opening Up the Order: A More Inclusive International System

Foreign Affairs · Mar/Apr 2021

Blog

Starlink and Sovereignty

New America · Dec 2023

On AI

Essay

AI and the Global South

Project Syndicate · Mar 2023

Report

Bridging the AI Governance Divide

T20 Policy Brief · Aug 2024

Blog

Shaping AI From the Middle

New America · June 2026

On Institutions

Case study

Restoring Order in the West Bank

Princeton ISS · Jun 2022

Case study

All In: Vietnam’s War Against COVID-19

Princeton ISS · Jun 2021

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Teaching

Stanford University

External Faculty

Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law · Leadership Academy for Development

University of Oxford

Visiting Instructor

Blavatnik School of Government · Master’s in Public Policy Program

ASU Thunderbird School of Global Management

Faculty Associate

Executive Master’s in Global Affairs and Global Management

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