Alberto Ibarguen Biography

Alberto Ibargüen is president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. As president he is an ex-officio trustee of the foundation.
He is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald. During his tenure The Miami Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes and El Nuevo Herald won Spain’s Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in journalism.
He studied at Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Between college and law school he served in the Peace Corps in Venezuela’s Amazon Territory and was the Peace Corps Programming and Training Officer in Colombia based in Bogotá. He practiced law in Hartford Connecticut until he joined The Hartford Courant then Newsday in New York before moving to Miami.
Ibargüen serves as a member of the boards of PepsiCo American Airlines and AOL. He is a former chair of the World Wide Web Foundation founded by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners­-Lee to promote a free and universal Web. Over time he has served on the boards of arts education and journalism organizations including the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Wesleyan University and Smith College. He is trustee emeritus of the Newseum in Washington D.C. where he served as board chair. He also chaired the board of PBS and served on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations the Committee to Protect Journalists and ProPublica.

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