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Greg Behrman is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of NationSwell – a new media company and online journalism platform that launched in December of 2013. He is presently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at New Profit, Inc. and a Fellow at the Yale Journalism Initiative.

He is also the Founder and Director of The Connecticut Heroes Project – a new initiative focused on combating homelessness amongst veterans in Connecticut. Behrman returned in the spring of 2012 from a one-year military deployment to Afghanistan where he was a Strategic Advisor first to Gen David Petraeus and then to Gen John Allen. He was awarded The Defense Meritorious Service Medal at the end of his tour. Prior to his deployment, Behrman was a Member of the Policy Planning Staff at the US Department of State from 2008-2011, where he played a key role in helping to design several Presidential and Secretarial-level initiatives.

He is the author of The Most Noble Adventure: The Story of the Marshall Plan and The Time When America Helped to Save Europe (Simon &Schuster, 2007), which reached #5 on the Foreign Affairs Best-Sellers List and received honors from The Washington Post, The American Academy of Diplomacy, and was positively reviewed in The New Yorker, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and other publications. He is also the author of The Invisible People (Simon & Schuster, 2004) about the US response to the global AIDS pandemic, which was reviewed positively in The New York Times and other publications.

Behrman was formerly the Henry Kissinger Fellow at The Aspen Institute and was also a Fellow at The Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University. In between college and graduate school, he worked for two years at Goldman, Sachs & Co in the firm’s private equity group. He graduated magna cum laude with a BA from Princeton University and with an M.Phil from Oxford University, where he received Distinction on his thesis.

He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut with his wife Caitlin, who is a nurse at Yale New Haven Hospital, and his daughter Claire.

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