Steve Forbes is President and Chief Executive Officer of Forbes and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine.

 

Since Mr. Forbes assumed his position in 1990, the company has launched a variety of new publications and businesses.  They include:  ForbesLife (formerly FYI), the irreverent lifestyle supplement; Forbes Asia; and Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew and Polish editions of the magazine.  Forbes also publishes the Gilder Technology Report, as well as a number of investment newsletters.

 

In both 1996 and 2000, Mr. Forbes campaigned vigorously for the Republican nomination for the Presidency.  Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits and a strong national defense.  Mr. Forbes continues to energetically promote this agenda.

 

Mr. Forbes is the author of Flat Tax Revolution:  Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS (2005) and A New Birth of Freedom (1999), a book of bold ideas for the new millennium.

 

In 1985, President Reagan named Mr. Forbes Chairman of the bi-partisan Board of International Broadcasting (BIB).  In this position, he oversaw the operation of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.  Broadcasting behind the Iron Curtain, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were praised by Poland’s Lech Walesa as being critical to the struggle against communism.  Mr. Forbes was reappointed to his post by President George H.W. Bush and served until 1993.

 

Steve Forbes was born on July 18, 1947, in Morristown, New Jersey.  He graduated cum laude in 1966 from Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts.  He received a B.A. in history from Princeton in 1970.  At Princeton, he was the founding editor of Business Today, which became the country’s largest magazine published by students for students, with a circulation of 200,000.  The magazine continues to be published today by Princeton undergraduates.

 

Mr. Forbes serves on the boards of The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, the Heritage Foundation and The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.  He is on the Board of Overseers of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and on the Board of Visitors for the School of Public Policy of Pepperdine University..  He served on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University for ten years.