Global Dialogues

Leonard Benardo is senior vice president for the Open Society Foundations where he directs the Ideas and Fellowships Collaborative that promotes and inspires heterodox thinking and cultural imagination around the world through the support of individuals, initiatives, and institutions. He has co-authored two books: Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names (2006); and Citizen-in-Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents (2010). His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the International Herald Tribune, Bookforum, the American Prospect, Project Syndicate, the New Statesman, and Prospect.