About Andrei Cherny

Andrei Cherny is chair of the Project 2029 initiative.

Andrei was born in Los Angeles, California to parents who had emigrated from Czechoslovakia three years earlier.

Andrei graduated with honors from Harvard College and from the University of California Berkeley Law School in 2003.

Andrei is formerly an Arizona Assistant Attorney General, the Chair of the Arizona Democratic Party, and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and at the Center for American Progress. He worked in the Clinton White House, was the lead negotiator and chief drafter of the 2000 Democratic Party platform, and served as a part-time advisor to Barack Obama's 2008 campaign.

Andrei was the founding editor of Democracy Journal and has written frequently on global economic policy, politics, and history for publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Atlantic. He is the author of "The Next Deal" and "The Candy Bombers."

Andrei lives in Phoenix, Arizona.