Mark Thompson

Mark Thompson (1976) is the Chairman of Ancestry.com, co-Chair of the International Fund for Public Interest Media, Deputy Chair of the Royal Shakespeare Company and an advisor to the Supervisory Board of Axel Springer SE. He stepped down as President & CEO at The New York Times Company in the summer of 2020 after an eight-year tenure in which the 170-year-old news brand was transformed into a digital powerhouse. Mark Thompson's appointment at The New York Times Company followed an eight-year term as Director General of the BBC. His book, Enough Said: What’s Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics? was published in the UK and US in September 2016.