Nancy Gibbs is the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice and Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She was formerly the editor-in-chief of TIME, the first woman to hold the position, and is the award-winning author of more cover stories than any writer in TIME’s 100-year history. She has interviewed five U.S. Presidents and is the co-author of two New York Times best-selling presidential histories, including “The President’s Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity”. Gibbs graduated from Yale College summa cum laude with honors in history and has a degree in politics and philosophy from Oxford, where she was a Marshall scholar. She is an independent director of Column, a public benefit corporation launched by former Harvard students to provide sustainable revenue to local newspapers and make public information more accessible.