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The Octavian Report is an American quarterly magazine published by the Octavian Foundation. It covers economics, politics, and culture. It was founded by Richard Hurowitz in 2014. Members of The Octavian Report’s editorial board include Garry Kasparov, Anne Applebaum, Bernard-Henri Levy, Ian Bremmer, Stacy Schiff and Nouriel Roubini.

Notable contributors and interviews include: Former U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz; Novelist and Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa; Former Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper; Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney; Former President of South Africa FW de Klerk;  Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak;  political activist Jody Williams; Former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd; Israeli Human Rights Activist Natan Sharansky; News Anchor Ted Koppel; Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry;  Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton; and American novelist Madeline Miller.

In its Spring 2019 issue, the magazine featured an interview with Harold Bloom on Othello which was illustrated with a specially commissioned painting Desdemona by John Currin. The Winter 2018 issue featured photographs by photographer Thomas Demand. The Summer 2017 issue featured an interview with environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel about his work to sequence Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA.

The Octavian Report also sponsors the annual Octavian Forum. The inaugural Octavian Forum was hosted by Sotheby’s in 2017. The Forum features interdisciplinary panel discussions on wide-ranging topics in finance, politics, and art. Past speakers at the forum have included: Jim Grant and Nouriel Roubini; Former Prime Minster of Spain José Maria Aznar; former Pixar CFO Lawrence Levy,  author Erica Jong, Billionaire Thomas Kaplan; former National Director of the Anti-Defamation League Abraham Foxman and former Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre Ethan Stiefel.

The Octavian Report produces a podcast, “The Rostrum.” In 2020, it launched a special series devoted to the COVID-19 crisis.