Biography

Alberto Ibargüen is president of Knight Foundation. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was a newspaper executive in Hartford and New York City before serving as publisher of The Miami Herald. Ibargüen is a member of the boards of PepsiCo, AMR Corp. (American Airlines), AOL, and the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a member of the Secretary of State's Foreign Policy Advisory Committee. He is a former board chair of the World Wide Web Foundation and of the Newseum in Washington, DC.