Clifton Leaf

Editor-in-Chief (2017 - 2021), Fortune

Former: Editor-in-Chief, FORTUNE; Executive Editor, Wall Street Journal's SmartMoney magazine and Fortune; Guest Editor, New York Times op-ed page; Deputy Editor, Fortune, overseeing the award-winning print magazine. Currently, Editor-in-Chief of Fortune. Member of the Board of Fellows, Stanford University School of Medicine; Founding Co-Chair, Fortune Brainstorm Health conference. Former Member: National Board of Directors, Susan G. Komen Foundation. Has presented testimony to the President's Cancer Panel three times and been a keynote speaker at more than three dozen scientific conferences around the world. 2006, delivered "Grand Rounds" at the National Cancer Institute – the only journalist to have ever received the honour. Author of "The Truth in Small Doses: Why We're Losing the War on Cancer – and How to Win It". Recipient, Lifetime Achievement Award for cancer reporting, European School of Oncology; Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism; Health Care Journalism Award, NIHCM; numerous other journalism and leadership awards.

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