Tina Brown is renowned for her role as the former editor-in-chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and The Daily Beast, which she also founded. Most recently, she has cemented her reputation as a pre-eminent convener of intellectual and newsmaking events, including the Women in the World Summit and Truth Tellers.
Tina’s appetite for showcasing brilliant conversations has brought her to the Aspen Ideas Festival. She lends us her expertise in identifying the critical challenges impacting our world today and the compelling speakers who are addressing them. We are excited to build upon the best traditions of the Aspen Ideas Festival as Tina brings bold new programming concepts to life.
“It will be thrilling to work on one of the world’s most prestigious ideas festivals with the extraordinarily talented Aspen Institute team who have built this glorious convening into a furnace of thoughtful conversation,” Brown said.
“Whether she is running a revered news publication, penning a New York Times bestseller, or amplifying the leadership of women and girls around the world, Tina Brown has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to identify and explore the most important issues facing the world today,” said Dan Porterfield, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute. “As we prepare to celebrate two decades of the Aspen Ideas Festival, we are excited to partner with Tina to curate this year’s content and design new ways for audiences to engage with this flagship Aspen Institute public platform.”
A recipient of the Commander of the British Empire (CBE) award for her significant contributions to journalism and inducted into the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame in 2007, Brown is renowned for her role as the former editor-in-chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and The Daily Beast, which she also founded, as well as the author of bestselling books such as The Diana Chronicles, The Palace Papers, and The Vanity Fair Diaries.
In addition to her remarkable journalism career, Brown has established herself as one of the pre-eminent conveners of intellectual and newsmaking events. In 2010, Brown coined the term “Live Journalism” and launched the Women in the World Summit which for ten years was the premiere live global convening for female leaders, CEOs, celebrities, global activists, and unknown firebrands. The annual summit was held at Lincoln Center to sold-out audiences over three days and expanded to London, Toronto, Delhi, Dubai, and San Paulo. In 2022, in a partnership with Reuters and Durham University, she founded the Truth Tellers, the Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism, held annually in London in honor of the legacy of her late husband, the celebrated crusading newspaper editor. She brought together more than 50 of the world’s leading and innovative journalists, editors, broadcasters, media owners, and documentarians, including Watergate legends Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and HBO’s Succession creator and writer Jesse Armstrong.
Brown’s appetite for showcasing brilliant conversations has inspired her to play host to literary and political luminaries for over three decades, hosting countless book parties and events for people and causes she and Sir Harry believed in.
For the 20th year of the Aspen Ideas Festival, Brown is assembling an extraordinary cast of speakers who are ablaze with groundbreaking ideas and imaginative solutions to the pressing issues of our time.
