Walter Isaacson is president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization. A celebrated journalist, he was chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of Time before joining Aspen. Isaacson is the author of several books, most recently the 2011 best-seller "Steve Jobs." He is the chairman of Teach for America, which recruits recent college graduates to teach in underserved communities. Until recently, he was chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and similar broadcasts. He is vice chair of Partners for a New Beginning, a public-private group tasked with forging ties between the United States and the Muslim world. Isaacson is a board member of United Airlines and Tulane University and an overseer of Harvard University. From 2005 to 2007, after Hurricane Katrina, he was vice chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar.

Panels:
A Conversation With Richard Haass and Walter Isaacson: America's Role in the World

Book Signing: Walter Isaacson, "Steve Jobs"

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