Lisa Hughes received her B.A from Harvard University in 1982. In February 2020, she became the first female publisher and CEO of The Philadelphia Inquirer in the paper’s 192-year history, after joining the Inquirer’s board of directors in 2018. Prior to that, she served as publisher and chief business officer of The New Yorker from 2009-17, where she was named Advertising Age’s Publisher of the Year in 2017. Hughes has held a number of other leadership positions at Condé Nast, including vice president and publisher of Condé Nast Traveler and publisher of House & Garden.
Hughes’ extensive board experience includes serving as a member of the Board of Directors for The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, the Civic Leadership Council of the PHL COVID-19 Fund, The News Media Alliance and The Forum of Executive Women. At St. Paul’s School, she served as a member of the Alumni Association Executive Committee from 2014 to 2020; as an Alumni Horae board member from 2007 to 2014 and as a form agent from 1988-2016. In 2016, she co-founded The XIX Society.
Her son Iain G. Hughes is a member of the Form of 2017; her daughter Livia C. Hughes graduated in the Form of 2019. Other SPS relatives include her grandfather, Horace F. Henriques 1917; her father, the late Horace F. “Harry” Henriques, Jr. ’47; and her brothers, Dr. Horace F. Henriques III ’73 and Peter G. Henriques ’76. She lives with her family in Manhattan.
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