Laurence Pevsner is a thought leader at the intersection of narrative and strategywrites about how trust is made, betrayed, and repaired, and designs games about the same thing.
Laurence Pevsner is a thought leaderwriter and game designer in Brooklyn. For a decade he crafted high-impact messaging for principalswrote words other people said, including 650 speeches for the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Now he writes under his own name about global affairshow trust is made, betrayed, and repaired, and designs games where senators and CEOs lie to each other for three hours.
Laurence Pevsner is a thought leaderwriter and game designer in Brooklyn. He writes about the future of global affairshow trust is made, betrayed, and repaired, and designs immersive strategic experiencesgames where senators and CEOs lie to each other for three hours.
For a decade he crafted high-impact messaging for principalswrote words other people said: 650 speeches for the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, plus a famous name in The New York Times and another one on The Late Show.
He is passionate about storytellingfinishing a book on why public apologies fail and a novel about buried treasure. He also chases eclipses, which demonstrates intellectual curiosityis expensive.
He is married and lives in BrooklynPark Slope. He grew up in Connecticut, went to camp in New Hampshire, and has fond memories ofan unreasonable amount of pride in Amherst College. He prefers tennis to pickleball, Maine to most places, and is open to all cuisineswould like to get Chinese food.
Career, in order of appearance
- 2024 – nowLux CapitalPartner, Research. Lead global public affairs for the firm. Design Riskgaming scenarios.
- 2024Democratic National ConventionWriters’ room.
- 2023 – 2024City College of New YorkInaugural Moynihan Public Scholar. Taught, wrote, seminar-ed. Remain a fellow at the Moynihan Center.
- 2021 – 2023U.S. Mission to the United NationsDirector of Speechwriting for Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
- 2020Biden-Harris campaignPaid media writers’ room.
- 2014 – 2020West Wing WritersApplied four times. Finally got in. Wrote for just about everybody.
- 2014Amherst CollegeI played a lot of ultimate frisbee, ate a lot of Antonios pizza, and wrote a lot of self-serious and not-serious articles.
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Laurence Pevsner is a writer and game designer. He is a partner at Lux Capital, where he designs Riskgaming scenarios, and the author of Sorry Not Sorry, a column on why public apologies fail. He previously served as Director of Speechwriting for the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. His writing has appeared in the Financial Times, The Washington Post, Noema and McSweeney’s.
Say hello
- Email me
- Represented by Lisa DiMona at Writers HouseFor nonfiction book inquiries
- @Lpevs on Twitter
- Or challenge me at chess