Adi Ignatius

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Adi Ignatius
Adi Ignatius, Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Business Review, USA, chairing a plenary panel.jpg
Ignatius in 2019
Born1958 (age 6566)
Burbank, California, U.S.
OccupationJournalist
Alma materSchool of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Adi Ignatius (born 1958) is editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review . He joined the magazine in January 2009. [1]

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Biography

Previously, he was deputy managing editor for Time , where he was responsible for many of its special editions, including the Person of the Year and Time 100 franchises. Previously, Ignatius served as Time's executive editor starting in 2002, responsible for the magazine's business and international coverage. He wrote frequently for the magazine, including cover stories on Google and the 2007 Person of the Year profile of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. [2] Ignatius joined Time as Deputy Editor of Time Asia in 1996, based in Hong Kong, and was named Editor of that edition in 2000.

Prior to joining Time, Ignatius worked for many years at the Wall Street Journal , serving as the newspaper's bureau chief in Beijing and later in Moscow. He later served as managing editor of the Central European Economic Review and business editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review , publications owned by Dow Jones.

Ignatius was awarded a Zuckerman Fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) in 1990. He received a bachelor's degree in history in 1981 from Haverford College in Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia Society and sits on the advisory board of the journalism school at SUNY. He currently serves as the Board President of Historic Stonington, an organization dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of Stonington, Connecticut.

His father, Paul Ignatius, served as United States Secretary of the Navy from 1967 to 1969. His brother, David Ignatius, is an editor and columnist for The Washington Post . [3]

Books

Ignatius is coeditor, of the book Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang . [4] The book is based on audiotapes that Zhao Ziyang, the former Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, recorded at home during 1999 and 2000.

In 2008, Ignatius was editor of the book President Obama: The Path to the White House, which was a New York Times Bestseller List bestseller. [5]

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References

  1. Boston Globe, January 6, 2009
  2. Time magazine, December 20, 2007
  3. "Story Details - Alumni - Harvard Business School". www.alumni.hbs.edu. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
  4. Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang, Simon & Schuster (May 19, 2009), hardcover, 336 pages ISBN   1-4391-4938-0 ISBN   978-1-4391-4938-6
  5. President Obama: The Path to the White House, Time (December 23, 2008), ISBN   1-60320-072-X ISBN   978-1-60320-072-1