David Carey

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About David Carey

David Carey is the senior vice president of public affairs and communications at Hearst Corporation, one of the nation's largest media, data and information companies. Previously, Carey served as chairman of Hearst Magazines after serving as president from 2010 to 2018. In 2019, he became a fellow at Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, an annual university-wide program that selects a small group of senior executives from around the world to spend two semesters on the Harvard campus studying solutions to large-scale societal problems.Carey also served as group president at Condé Nast, where he oversaw the company’s media properties targeted to executive audiences. He was publisher of The New Yorker from 1998 to 2005, returning it to profitability after years of losses. Earlier in his career, Carey was the founding publisher of SmartMoney, a joint venture between Hearst Magazines and The Wall Street Journal.Carey serves as a trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the past, he has served on the board of directors of Harvard Business Publishing as well as the advisory board of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a former director of Hearst Corporation, as well as the Harry Winston Diamond Corporation. He is a 1985 graduate of UCLA, where he began his media career as publisher of UCLA’s The Daily Bruin.