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Lance Knobel has had a varied international career at the intersection of business, geopolitics and technology. He is CEO and co-founder of Cityside, a nonprofit civic journalism organization committed to building community through local journalism. We provide readers with fact-driven, nonpartisan informative reporting that seeks to reflect the diversity and complexity of the communities we serve.He was a co-founder of Berkeleyside, the leading news source for Berkeley, CA, and a pioneer in local online news. Berkeleyside is now published by Cityside. He was previously Director of Programs for Richard Attias & Associates, one of the world's leading communications consultants. He was a Director of Kao & Company, a San Francisco-based advisory firm that concentrates on issues surrounding innovation and organizational transformation, a founder of Q Network, a start-up that developed a new model of high-level strategic consulting, and former Director of the Programme for the World Economic Forum's Davos summit meeting. In 2001-02, he was Adviser, Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, London, Tony Blair's Downing Street think tank that examined medium- and long-range strategic issues. Lance was involved in work on science and technology policy, energy security and speculative work examining truly long-range challenges for the UK. In 2000-01, he was Managing Director of Vesta Capital Partners, a London-based venture capital firm focused on mobile and wireless technology start-ups. From 1992-2000 he was Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director, World Link, the magazine of the World Economic Forum. In that role, he directed coverage of a bewildering range of issues: new technology, economic transformation, management thinking, global investment trends. Lance’s particular expertise was in examining the intersection of technology and geopolitics. In addition to his responsibilities for World Link, in 1999-2000 he was Director of the Programme of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. In that capacity, he was in charge of deciding the topics, design and speakers for over 300 sessions in Davos. An American citizen, he lived in the UK for over 25 years until his 2005 move back to the US. He has degrees from Princeton University and Oxford University.

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