Aspen is a place for leaders to lift their sights above the possessions which possess them. To confront their own nature as human beings, to regain control over their own humanity by becoming more self-aware, more self-correcting, and hence more self-fulfilling.
Jonathon Price serves as a vice president at the Aspen Institute and Executive Director for International Partners where he supports Aspen’s growing global network of thirteen international partners—8 in Europe along with India, Mexico, Japan, New Zealand, and Colombia. He also manages the Aspen Ministers Forum, a convening of former Foreign Ministers founded by Madeleine Albright. Previously, he was the Deputy Director of the Aspen Strategy Group, a policy program of the Aspen Institute that promotes bipartisan dialogue on critical foreign policy and national security issues. Before joining the Aspen Institute, he served as Deputy Assistant for the Korean Ambassador to the United States, Lee Tae-sik. Prior to his work with Ambassador Lee, he was the Special Assistant to the Consul General with the Korean Consulate in Atlanta. He serves on the advisory board of Service Never Sleeps, an organization that empowers individuals and communities to catalyze social justice through service and Allyship. He received a bachelor’s degree from Emory University, where he interned with The Carter Center, focusing on the conflicts in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the LBJ Washington Center for the University of Texas at Austin. He has a master’s degree in government from Johns Hopkins University.
