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Vivian Schiller

Executive Director, Aspen Institute

Vivian Schiller is a member of the Reuters Institute's Advisory Board. 

She is currently Executive Director at the Aspen Institute, heading up programs around media, technology and cybersecurity.

Prior to joining Aspen, Vivian served as the founding head of the Civil Foundation, an independent not-for-profit committed to the sustainability of trustworthy journalism around the world. She is also strategic advisor to Craig Newmark Philanthropies.

Over the last 30 years, Vivian has held executive roles at some of the most respected media organization in the world. Those include: President and CEO of NPR; Global Chair of News at Twitter; General Manager of NYTimes.com; Chief Digital Office of NBC News; chief of the Discovery Times Channel, a joint venture of The New York Times and Discovery Communications; and head of CNN documentary and long form divisions. Documentaries and series produced under her auspices earned multiple honors, including three Peabody Awards, four Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, and dozens of Emmys.

Vivian is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and a Director of the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian.