WALTER ISAACSON

'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 ''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). His biography of Albert Einstein, ''Einstein: His Life and Universe,'' was published by Simon & Schuster in April 2007. In 2007, he became a columnist for TIME on international affairs.
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'' 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, the National Constitution Center, and UAL Corporation (United Airlines). He serves on the national council of The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington and on the Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health. On October 17 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.

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★ 'List of recent articles by Walter Isaacson'