Andrew Rosen
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Andrew A. Rosen is the founder and Principal of AAgave LLC, which
consults with digital media start-ups to help build their distribution
and monetization strategies around their online content.

He is currently consulting for BET.com, where he is overseeing and
coordinating the development and operational implementations of
expanding BET's digital marketing offerings, and of innovative ad
products on BET.com and across BET's Vertical Ad Network. He is also
responsible for business development initiatives with major portals.

Most recently, Mr. Rosen was at MTV Networks, where he served as the
Executive Director, Ad Products Strategy and Development, for the
Digital Fusion division of MTVN Digital Ad Sales. He was responsible
for overseeing and coordinating the creative development, operational
implementation, and research of innovative ad packages and ad units
for MTVN's online video content. His responsibilities also included:
building a competitive analysis of innovative video ad models in the
marketplace; leading the construction and implementation of the ad
delivery model for the new online full episode video players of MTV's
The Hills and Comedy Central's South Park; and, creating and
coordinating a strategy for selling new ad units and ad packages to
advertisers.

Prior to this, he served as Director of Digital Distribution for MTV
Networks Global Digital Media, where he developed, negotiated,
coordinated, and implemented MTVN distribution and innovation
partnerships on new platforms, including mRSS, widgets and Rich
Internet Applications. Additionally, while at MTVN he was responsible
for executing the Viacom-Adobe partnership as part of Viacom's $200M
acquisition of AtomFilms, and MTVN's partnership with Microsoft around
Windows Media Center Edition. He also directly oversaw centralized
digital marketing initiatives and partnerships, and was responsible
for devising and implementing moderation solutions for User-Generated
Content across all MTVN sites.

Mr. Rosen holds a BA in History with Distinction from Yale University
and a JD from New York University School of Law. He is a member of the
New York State Bar. Mr. Rosen has been published in the Wall Street
Journal Europe, the Financial Times, the New York University Journal
of International Law and Politics, and in the Penn State International
Law Review.

Mr. Rosen is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where
he is currently leading an initiative to integrate Web 2.0 into the
Term Member Program. Last summer, Andrew was invited to speak about
Web 2.0 at the US Special Operations Command in Tampa, FL by its
Commander, Admiral Erik T. Olsen.

Prior to attending NYU Law School, Andrew worked on the foreign policy
staffs for Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and Robert Torricelli and at
theNational Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York.

Blog Entries by Andrew Rosen

Richard Holbrooke: A Self-Described "Idealistic Realist, or Realistic Idealist"

Posted December 15, 2010 | 12/15/10 11:06 AM ET

The news of Richard Holbrooke's passing brought me back to when I interviewed him 13 years ago for my senior essay at Yale University. The essay argued that the approach and outcome of the 1995 Dayton Accords reflected a combination of the twin poles of US foreign policy history: the...

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Wikileaks Showdown: The Elusive Digital Anarchist vs. The Godmother of 21st Century Statecraft

Posted December 2, 2010 | 12/02/10 03:52 PM ET

The Wikileaks release of US documents has unexpectedly evolved into a showdown between Founder Julian Assange and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Were this a stage production of Assange's youth, the marquee for this drama might read "The Elusive Digital Anarchist vs. The Godmother of 21st Century Statecraft."

There is...

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Alec Ross' Odd Tweet About 21st Century Statecraft

Posted October 19, 2010 | 10/19/10 04:28 PM ET

There was an odd tweet yesterday from Alec Ross, Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It reads, "We can't leave the digital playing field to Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah. This... shows need for 21st Century Statecraft."

"This" was a link to an...

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Ignoring YouTube: Imam Feisal's Flawed Approach to 21st Century "Media"

Posted September 20, 2010 | 09/20/10 04:01 PM ET

Imam Feisal's talk at the Council on Foreign Relations reveals the Imam's surprising portrayal of a monolothic Media which has lost control of his message, and has allowed itself to be "hijacked by extremists." He demands, "You, the media, can fuel the radicals or you can limit their...

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Messy Digital Diplomacy

Posted August 17, 2010 | 08/17/10 11:46 AM ET

This month, the Obama Administration's much-evangelized '21st century statecraft' approach has returned to the headlines -- Secretary Clinton has restarted its "text SWAT to 50555" campaign to help the flood victims in northwest Pakistan, and Jared Cohen has left the State Department's Policy Planning Staff to join Google after

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Google, China, and 1984

Posted February 28, 2010 | 02/28/10 02:29 PM ET

The Google v. China controversy has missed the point. It should be about The Cloud, and how China's attack on The Cloud brought us closer to the future presaged in George Orwell's 1984.

"The Cloud" is where Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other web service companies host, store, and analyze the...

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YouTube Diplomacy Meets #iranelection

Posted July 23, 2009 | 07/23/09 07:59 PM ET

Twitter and the birth of the "real-time" web mark a new chapter in the rapidly evolving new era of public diplomacy.

Four months ago, President Obama's Nawroz message to the Iranian people was posted to YouTube, and just over one month ago, the White House posted the video of...

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YouTube Diplomacy and Iran

Posted June 17, 2009 | 06/17/09 06:56 PM ET

In Iran, a religious revolution in decline is confronting a technological revolution in ascendancy.

It is no secret that the Islamic Revolution of 1979 has progressively lost its direction since Iran's retreat from the Iran-Iraq war in 1988. Journalistic portraits of Iran often reflect a populace with a collective...

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