Speaker Details
Jonathan Newhouse
Chairman, Condé Nast International
Jonathan Newhouse is Chairman of Condé Nast International, which publishes more than 100 magazines and operates more than 70 websites in 23 countries outside the US, including the overseas editions of Vogue, Glamour, Gentlemen's Quarterly and Vanity Fair. Since assuming leadership of the organisation in 1990 he has directed the launch of more than 70 titles.
After leaving Yale University in 1972 he began his career in the family-owned business as a newspaper press operator. He worked as a reporter and editor for the Staten Island Advance, a New York newspaper and in various management roles before moving into magazines in 1980. He served as executive vice president of The New Yorker magazine and publisher of Details in the 1980s.
A native of New York City, he has lived in London since 1994 and acquired dual citizenship as a UK subject as well. In 2008 he was honoured as an Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters of France. He is married to the creative director Ronnie Cooke Newhouse.
