Nick Thompson

Nicholas Thompson is the CEO of The Atlantic, a position he has held since 2021. Previously, he was the editor-in-chief of WIRED and the editor of NewYorker.com Thompson is also a cofounder of The Atavist, a multimedia CMS that was sold to WordPress, and Speakeasy.ai, which was sold to Amplica Labs. 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. Thompson films a daily video on tech policy for Linkedin and has roughly two million followers across social media platforms. He has long been a competitive runner; in 2021, he set the American record for men 45+ in the 50K race.