Leonard Benardo

Leonard Benardo is Vice President of the Open Society Foundations and Director of its Ideas Workshop. His intellectual background is in Eurasian geopolitics and society, though his interests span all continents. He has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books and Prospect, among others. Benardo is author (with Jennifer Weiss) of Citizen-in-Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents and of Brooklyn By Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names.