Everything about Walter Isaacson totally explained
Walter Isaacson (born
May 20 1952, in
New Orleans, Louisiana) is the President and CEO of the
Aspen Institute. He has been the Chairman and CEO of
CNN and the Managing Editor of
TIME. He is the author of
Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007),
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) and of
Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and is the co-author, with Evan Thomas, of
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). In 2007, he became a columnist for TIME.
After graduating from New Orleans'
Isidore Newman School and a brief stint at
Deep Springs College, Isaacson attended
Harvard College (B.A. in history and literature) and
University of Oxford, where he was a
Rhodes Scholar at
Pembroke College (M.A. in
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics).
He began his career in journalism at
The Sunday Times of London and then the
New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. He joined
TIME in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, national editor, and editor of new media before becoming the magazine's fourteenth managing editor in 1996. He became Chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president and CEO of the
Aspen Institute in 2003.
He is the chairman of the board of
Teach for America. He is on the Board of
Tulane University,
Society for Science & the Public, and
UAL Corporation (
United Airlines). He serves on the national council of The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, the
National Constitution Center, and on the Advisory Committee of the
National Institutes of Health. In October 2005, Louisiana Governor
Kathleen Blanco appointed Isaacson vice chairman of the
Louisiana Recovery Authority, a thirty-three-member policymaking board, led by
Norman C. Francis, the president of
Xavier University. In December 2007, he was appointed by President
George W. Bush to the chairman of the U.S.-Palestinian Public-Private Partnership, which seeks to create economic and educational opportunities in the Palestinian territories. He also serves as the cochair of the U.S.-Vietnamese Dialogue on
Agent Orange, which in January 2008 announced completion of a project to contain the dioxin left behind by the U.S. at the
Da Nang air base and plans to build health centers and a dioxin laboratory in the affected regions.
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