About
Alex Randall Kittredge is an entrepreneur, strategic advisor, author, and business transformation executive who helps hedge funds, private equity firms, and financial-services organizations turn complex change into operating results.
He has led people, integration, and workforce strategy initiatives across hedge funds, private equity platforms, and public companies, including roles as Senior Program Manager and Chief of Staff to the CHRO at Global Industrial (NYSE: GIC) and Assistant Chief of Staff within Standard Industries’ investment ecosystem.
He is best known as the Founder and Managing Director of APR Strategic Consulting and the author of the popular career strategy Substack publication, ARK Strategy
He holds degrees from Columbia University and the University of Cambridge, where his early graduate research included an extensive intellectual history critique of Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker's theory of human capital.
He has additionally completed executive education coursework in strategy execution and organizational leadership at Harvard Business School.
Featured Work
From Tehran to Tokyo: Foucault, Liberalism and the Politics of Our Time
Why did Michel Foucault, the great skeptic of Western power, become enamored with the Islamic Revolution in Iran? And what does his lesser-known engagement with postwar Japan reveal about the global crisis of liberalism?
In From Tehran to Tokyo, Alex Randall Kittredge unpacks the most enigmatic chapter of Foucault’s political thought—his embrace of a revolution that defied the secular, rationalist ideals of Western liberalism. But this is no simple intellectual biography. Drawing on rich archival research and gripping narrative storytelling, Kittredge places Foucault’s controversial writings on Iran alongside his meditations on Japanese modernity, uncovering a profound and disturbing through-line: a deep suspicion of liberal democracy and a search for alternatives in unexpected places.
This is a story of ideas colliding with history—of Tehran’s streets, Tokyo’s quiet order, and the twilight of Western certainty. For readers of political theory, Middle East studies, global intellectual history, or Foucault studies, this is an unflinching look at how revolutions reshape not only nations, but the minds of those who try to understand them.
Perfect For Readers Who Love:
Orientalism by Edward Said
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
Political theory, Islamic studies, Japan studies, or postcolonial critique
Other Works
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Gary Becker's Theory of Human Capital
2025
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Re-Evaluating Foucault and Kant
2025
