Education
University of Oxford. Princeton University.
University of Oxford. Princeton University.
NationSwell is a digital media company focused on American renewal. The team identifies the new American innovators and pioneers who are doing the most creative and impactful things to move our country forward, produces great stories about them, and drives social action in support of their efforts. Behrman returned in the spring of 2012 from a one-year military deployment to Afghanistan where he was a Strategic Advisor first to General
David Petraeus and then to General
John Allen. 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) and The Invisible People (Simon & Schuster, 2004) about the United States response to the global Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome pandemic. 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 & Company in the firm’s private equity group. He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor from Princeton University and with an The Master of Philosophy from Oxford University.
Prior to his deployment, Behrman was a Member of the Policy Planning Staff at the United States Department of State from 2008 to 2011.