Gordon Crovitz
Columnist and Former Publisher, The Wall Street Journal
L. Gordon Crovitz is a Columnist and the former Publisher of The Wall Street Journal. He was also executive vice president of Dow Jones & Company. In his 25-year career at Dow Jones, he was a columnist, magazine publisher and founder of Factiva. Under his leadership, "The Wall Street Journal Online" grew to more than 1 million paying subscribers, making it the largest subscription news site on the Web. He led numerous acquisitions, including those of MarketWatch.com, Private Equity Analyst and VentureOne. Crovitz is on the boards of Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association, the American Association of Rhodes Scholars and the Knight-Bagehot Foundation; he is also on the ProPublica Journalism Advisory Board. He has been chairman of Factiva and an advisor to Media Technology Ventures III, a venture capital investment fund. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and has law degrees from the University of Oxford and Yale Law School.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.