George Friedman

George Friedman is a Hungarian-born United States geopolitical writer on international affairs. He is the founder of Geopolitical Futures. Friedman was born in Budapest, Hungary, 1949 to Holocaust survivor parents. His family fled Hungary to the United States to escape the communist regime, and Friedman describes his family story as a classic story of refugees starting a new life in America. Growing up in New York, he attended City College of New York, receiving his B.A., and later joined Cornell University, where he majored in political science and a Ph.D. in government.