Mark Thompson (media executive)

Sir Mark John Thompson (born 31 July 1957) is a British–American media executive who is CEO of CNN, and serves as chairman of the Board of Directors of Ancestry He is the former president and CEO of The New York Times Company. From 2004 to 2012, he was Director-General of the BBC, and before that was the Chief Executive of Channel 4. In 2009 Thompson was ranked as the 65th most powerful person in the world by Forbes magazine. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2017.

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