Alberto Ibargüen is president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which promotes informed and engaged communities.
He is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and 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 Spanish language journalism.
He graduated from Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Between college and law school, he served in the Peace Corps in Venezuela's Amazon Territory and later was the Peace Corps Programming and Training Officer in Colombia. After law school, he practiced law in Hartford, Conn., until he joined The Hartford Courant, then Newsday in New York, before moving to Miami.
He has chaired the boards of PBS, the Newseum and the World Wide Web Foundation. He is currently a member of the board of American Airlines and previously served on the boards of PepsiCo and AOL.
Alberto is a member of MIT's Visiting Committee for the Media Lab and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. For his work to protect journalists in Latin America, he received a Maria Moors Cabot citation from Columbia University.