Tina Brown

Biography

Tina Brown is an award-winning journalist, editor, and author. She has been Editor-in-Chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazine. Tina was awarded a CBE for her services to journalism, and was inducted into the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame. 

Tina launched and edited the digital news site The Daily Beast which twice won the news website of the year award. She founded the Women in the World Foundation which continued as a live journalism platform for female leaders, CEOs, celebrities, and global activists, and hosted ten sold-out summits at New York’s Lincoln Center. Some of the women who appeared on the summit stage include Hillary Clinton, Queen Rania, Madeleine Albright, Susan Rice, Afghan First Lady Rhula Ghani, Oprah Winfrey, Nicole Kidman, Scarlett Johansson, Anna Wintour, and Nobel Peace Prize winners Leymah Gbowee and Nadia Murad. Tina expanded Women in the World internationally with summits in London, Toronto, Dubai, and Delhi, and with salons throughout the United States.

She is the author The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor: the Truth and the Turmoil, her inside account of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years, only to confront new, 21st-century crises. It is a follow-up to her New York Times best-selling biography of the Princess of Wales, The Diana Chronicles. She is also author of The Vanity Fair Diaries, which was chosen as one of the best books of the year by Time, People, Amazon, The Guardian, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, and Vogue.

As host of the podcast TBD with Tina Brown, she interviewed politicians, actors, journalists, and newsmakers.

Tina was honoured as a Library Lion by the New York Public Library.