Alberto Ibargüen is President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, Florida. He is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald in Miami, Florida, and is chairman of the board of the World Wide Web Foundation, founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Under his leadership, The Miami Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes; El Nuevo Herald won Spain's Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in journalism.[1]
He is a member of the boards of Pepsico, the Council on Foreign Relations, AMR Corporation (American Airlines), AOL and Snag Films.[2] He has also served as board chairman of PBS and of the Newseum in Washington, D.C.[3]
Ibargüen is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[4] After college and prior to law school, he served in the Peace Corps in Venezuela's Amazon Territory and in Colombia.