Alberto Ibarguen is president of the Knight Foundation. The foundation promotes informed and engaged communities through the funding of transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts.
He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald.
He is a member of the boards of PepsiCo, American Airlines, AOL and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the former chair of the board of the Newseum and of PBS, both in Washington, D.C., and of the World Wide Web Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland.
