Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson

Board Member at United Airlines
Company Tenure: 11 years
Education:
Harvard University (B.A.) University of Oxford (Rhodes Scholar)
Biography:

Walter Isaacson is a Director at United Airlines Holdings with 11 years of tenure. He currently holds affiliations with Halliburton Labs and Perella Weinberg Partners. Previously he has been affiliated with CNN, Time Magazine, New Orleans Times-Picayune, and The Sunday Times. Isaacson served as chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors under President Barack Obama from 2010 to 2012. He is associated with several non-profit organizations, including Bloomberg Philanthropies, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, and New Schools for New Orleans. Mr. Isaacson holds a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He has contributed $1,000 to Republican causes and $14,100 to Democratic ones.

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$1,000 $14,100

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"And so one of the themes of my book is how people who celebrate diverse environments and diverse interests, from math to music to engineering to the humanities, tend to be the most creative. And when this country, I don't want to get political here, started feeling like it was coming apart at the seams over the past four, five, six years, I realized that things were not happening that much in Washington that I felt comfortable with."