Joshua S. Fouts—Dancing Ink Productions, LLC

Joshua S. Fouts is Chief Global Strategist of Dancing Ink Productions, , a company that fosters the emergence of a new global culture in the Imagination Age through virtual worlds.  He is a Carnegie Council Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and a Senior Fellow for Digital Media and Public Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency.  Fouts has over 18 years of expertise in new technology innovation, international relations, journalism, government and strategic non-profit management and development. Since 2003 he has worked to help non-profits and governments worldwide (including the U.S., China and Brazil) understand and create a presence in virtual worlds and the 3-D Immersive Internet.  His work has been featured in The New York Times, the Washington Post and NPR. Before joining Dancing Ink Productions, Fouts co-founded and directed the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School; previously he was director and co-founder of the USC Annenberg Online Journalism & Communication Center and in which he co-founded and was editor of OJR, the first Internet-based Online Journalism Review. Fouts spent half a decade at the U.S. Department of State (USIA) and the Voice of America launching numerous new technology and public diplomacy projects. He is on the editorial board of Place Branding (Palgrave Macmillan). Fouts is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Public Diplomacy Council at the George Washington University.