Legendary Knight
Foundation CEO Ibarguen retires
Alberto Ibargüen,
president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for 18 years, is
retiring at the age of 79.
Ibargüen, who
was publisher of the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald before agreeing to
oversee the multibillion-dollar endowment of the Knight Foundation.
In 2021 his wife
for 53 years, Susana Ibargüen, a civic leader and a board president at Pérez
Art Museum Miami, passed away after a two-year battle with amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis, a neurological disorder known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Under Ibargüen’s
leadership, the Knight Foundation poured $2.3 billion into media, tech
development and arts and community-building organizations in states where the
Knights had newspapers.
the Knight
Foundation operates in Akron; Miami; Charlotte, North Carolina; Detroit; Macon,
Georgia; Philadelphia; San Jose, California; and St. Paul, Minnesota.
Ibargüen was a
Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela, too.
“I think we did
OK,” Ibargüen said.
Indeed!
Ibargüen was
Puerto Rican-born, New York-reared, and educated at Wesleyan University and the
University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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