Steven Clemons is the CEO of BeBop, a multi-channel, multi-platform global online city for the arts, artists of every genre, and those who support and love culture. As a political journalist, commentator, and innovator and builder of institutions, he has been at the forefront of bringing to life important social issues and discussions throughout his career. Clemons is also the editor-at-large of The Hill, America's most read political media platform, where he helps lead the editorial direction of The Hill's politics and policy events and related editorial video programs and is the host of a weekly news program titled The Bottom Line which runs on the global network of Al Jazeera English. For the previous nine years, he served as Washington editor-at-large of The Atlantic and editor-in-chief of AtlanticLIVE, the magazine's live events channel. Clemons and Elizabeth Keffer, the former President of AtlanticLIVE, began a partnership in 2004 that launched the first 3-D journalism LIVE events series at a major publication. Clemons also served as Executive Vice President of the New America Foundation and founded New America's American Strategy Program. Publisher of the popular political blog, The Washington Note, Clemons, along with Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo, was among the first to demonstrate the real-time political impacts blogging could have. He served as Executive Vice President of the Economic Strategy Institute, Senior Policy Advisor on Economic and International Affairs to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and was the first Executive Director of the Nixon Center. Prior to moving to Washington, Clemons served for seven years as Executive Director of the Japan America Society of Southern California, and co-founded, with Chalmers Johnson, the Japan Policy Research Institute. He was previously a Member of the Board of the Clarke Center at Dickinson College, a liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pa., as well as an Advisory Board Member of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College in Chestertown, MD. Clemons is on the International Advisory Board of GLOBSEC, a major central European national security think tank and writes frequently on matters of foreign policy, defense, and international economic policy. His work has appeared in many of the major leading op-ed pages, journals, and magazines around the world.