Globetrotting entrepreneur and media executive Eason Jordan discusses the lessons he has learned during his decades of close encounters with despots, heroes and lunatics, including Syrian President Bashar Assad, Jordan's Kings Hussein and Abdullah, nine Israeli prime ministers, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and terrorist Ahmed Jabril, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Soviet and Russian Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, Cuban Presidents Fidel and Raul Castro, North Korean founder and eternal president Kim Il Sung, visionary and philanthropist Ted Turner, education activist Malala Yousafzai, and Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter.

PRODUCER: Eason Jordan

Eason Jordan is the director of operations and communications for Malala Yousafzai's new education-focused foundation, the Malala Fund. For the previous eight years, he helped launch and lead media companies: the digital news network NowThis News; the news and public opinion company Poll Position; and a war zone-focused information services business, Praedict. Before that, Jordan worked for 23 years at CNN, where he served as chief news executive and president of newsgathering and international networks.

Jordan serves on the leadership council of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the North America board of the International News Safety Institute, and the board of directors of the Fugees Family. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the ONE Campaign.

Jordan splits his time between Manhattan and Sag Harbor.