Alberto Ibargüen

Alberto Ibargüen

Alberto Ibargüen is president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The foundation is a leading supporter of journalism in the new media age, as well as the advancement of communities in the United States where the Knight brothers once owned newspapers. Ibargüen was publisher of The Miami Herald and of 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. Previously, he was executive vice president of Newsday and earlier practiced law in Hartford, Connecticut.

Ibargüen is chairman of the board of the Newseum in Washington, D.C. and a board member of PepsiCo, AMR (American Airlines), ProPublica, Council on Foreign Relations and the World Wide Web Foundation. He is former board chairman of PBS.

He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. For his work to protect journalists in Latin America, he received a Maria Moors Cabot citation from Columbia University and an honorary doctorate from The George Washington University.