Almar Latour

Almar Latour is the Publisher of The Wall Street Journal and the CEO of Dow Jones, the world’s leading brands in business news and information. Under his leadership, the company has achieved the best financial performance in its 142-year history, while safeguarding The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones as beacons of trust and reliability. A transformative leader in digital media and information, he was named a Business Visionary Honoree by PEN America. He has long been a leader in digital media, overhauling WSJ.com during the 2008 financial crisis, establishing the Barron’s Group and growing it to more than 1 million subscriptions, and creating China Real-Time, among many other initiatives. Latour worked as a journalist on three continents and extensively covered technology, digital, and the rise of mobile. He managed WSJ.com and served as Editor in Chief of the Asian Wall Street Journal and as Executive Editor for The Wall Street Journal. He began his career as a news assistant and was an intern for The Wall Street Journal Europe. He is a global champion for press freedom and a defender of intellectual property rights of news companies in the age of Generative AI. Latour is a member and former chair of the World Economic Forum’s Media, Entertainment, and Sports Governors Community, a board member of the Atlantic Council, and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and a Financial Leaders Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He speaks and writes regularly about leadership, growth strategy, the future of media, press freedom, geopolitics, financial learning and literacy, and the ideas that shape power, purpose, and performance. A native of the Netherlands, he lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.