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 also significantly grown revenue, while reaching the highest level of subscribers in
its 167-year history. Thompson is the former editor-in-chief of WIRED, where he built
successful subscription and affiliate 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 a
documentary on HBO Max.

Thompson is a former contributor for CBS News. He is also a cofounder of The Atavist,
a multimedia CMS that was sold to WordPress, and of 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. Thompson has long been a
competitive runner; in 2021, he set the American record for men 45+ in the 50K race.