Laurence Pevsner

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.

Career, in order of appearance

  1. 2024 – now
    Lux CapitalPartner, Research. Lead global public affairs for the firm. Design Riskgaming scenarios.
  2. 2024
    Democratic National ConventionWriters’ room.
  3. 2023 – 2024
    City College of New YorkInaugural Moynihan Public Scholar. Taught, wrote, seminar-ed. Remain a fellow at the Moynihan Center.
  4. 2021 – 2023
    U.S. Mission to the United NationsDirector of Speechwriting for Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
  5. 2020
    Biden-Harris campaignPaid media writers’ room.
  6. 2014 – 2020
    West Wing WritersApplied four times. Finally got in. Wrote for just about everybody.
  7. 2014
    Amherst 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.

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