Steve Forbes
Chairman and CEO, Forbes
Editor-in-Chief, Forbes magazine, U.S.

Steve Forbes is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Forbes, and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine. He was named Chairman in December 2007. Since Mr. Forbes assumed the CEO position in 1990, the company has launched a variety of new publications and businesses. They include: ForbesLife, the irreverent, lifestyle supplement; ForbesLife Executive Woman, providing Forbes’ community of executive women with luxury lifestyle content that they value and respect; Forbes Asia; and Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Polish and Turkish editions of the magazine. Forbes also publishes the Gilder Technology Report, as well as a number of investment newsletters.

In 1996 Forbes entered the new media arena with the launch of Forbes.com. Now receiving more than 20 million unique monthly visitors, it has become a leading destination site for senior business decision-makers and investors. In 2005 and 2006, Forbes launched ForbesAutos.com and ForbesTraveler.com, respectively. Other company divisions include: Forbes Conference Group; Forbes Investors Advisory Institute; and Investopedia.com, the Internet’s leading online portal for investor education. In November 2007, the company acquired and invested in two new Web sites: RealClearPolitics.com and Clipmarks. The company’s flagship publication, Forbes, is the nation’s leading business magazine, with a circulation of more than 900,000.

Forbes combined with Forbes Asia and the company’s eight local-language editions together reach a worldwide audience of over five million readers. Mr. Forbes writes editorials for each issue of Forbes under the heading of “Fact and Comment.” A widely respected economic prognosticator, he is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times. The prize was formerly given by U.S. Steel Corporation to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts for the coming year proved most accurate.

In both 1996 and 2000, Mr. Forbes campaigned vigorously for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits and a strong national defense. Mr. Forbes continues to energetically promote this agenda. Mr. Forbes is the author of Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS (Regnery, 2005). He also wrote A New Birth of Freedom (Regnery, 1999), a book of bold ideas for the new millennium. Mr. Forbes serves on the boards of The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, the Heritage Foundation and The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He is on the Board of Overseers of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and on the Board of Visitors for the School of Public Policy of Pepperdine University. He served on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University for ten years.