Nicholas Thompson

Nicholas Thompson

Nicholas Thompson is the CEO of The Atlantic, a position he has held since 2021. During
that time, the publication has won three National Magazine Awards for General Excellence,
three Pulitzer Prizes, and been named Digiday’s Publisher of the Year. It has grown revenue
by 84%, while reaching the highest level of subscribers in its 166-year history. Thompson is
also the former editor-in-chief of WIRED, where he built successful subscription and
aRiliate revenue businesses. While at WIRED he also wrote and edited multiple stories that
were cited in front of Congress and one that was turned into an Academy Award winning
film. Another of his stories was recently turned into the second highest grossing
documentary of all time on HBO Max.

Thompson is a former contributor for CBS News and a cofounder of The Atavist, a
multimedia CMS that was sold to WordPress, and Speakeasy.ai, which was sold to Amplica
Labs. He previously served as editor of NewYorker.com. He is a life member at the Council
on Foreign Relations, a board member at The National Committee on American Foreign
Policy, the author of “The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History
of the Cold War,” and a former contributor to CNN and CBS News. He films a daily video on
tech policy for Linkedin and has roughly two million followers across social media
platforms. Thompson has long been a competitive runner; in 2021, he set the American
record for men 45+ in the 50K race. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford where he
earned degrees in Earth Systems, Political Science, and Economics.

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2 August 2023
16:00 - 16:35 CEST Geneva | 10:00-10:35 EDT, New York | 22:00-22:35 CST, Beijing
Yuval Noah Harari (Sapienship), Nicholas Thompson (The Atlantic)

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