Nicolas Berggruen is the publisher of Noema Magazine and the chairman and co-founder of the Berggruen Institute. Established in 2010, the institute is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank that works to develop foundational ideas about how to reshape political and social institutions in our rapidly changing world. It is focused on great transformations in the human condition, restructuring of global economics and politics, and advances in science and technology.

Nicolas’s dedication to art and architecture has led him to a seat on the board of the Museum Berggruen, Berlin as well as that of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He is a member of the International Councils for the Tate Museum, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the President’s International Council for the J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles. He has collaborated on projects with architects Richard Meier, Shigeru Ban and David Adjaye and is presently planning the institute’s new headquarters in the Santa Monica mountains with Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron and Los Angeles’s Gensler.