R.P. is the CEO of Ergo. Previously, he served at the White House National Security Council and as a senior US diplomat. He was Chief of Staff to US Ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke, Senior Adviser to Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, and Senior Policy Officer to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, where he served as an architect of the Global Fund to Prevent AIDS, TB, and Malaria. R.P. was a Managing Director at the Gerson Lehrman Group and a Team Leader at the Monitor Group. The World Economic Forum honored him as a “Global Leader for Tomorrow.” He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was an associate at Harvard University’s Belfer Center. R.P. is the co-author, with Richard Clarke, of the best-selling and award-winning book “Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes.” He holds a B.Sc. in Neuroscience from Brown University.