2009 Event Speakers

• 

  Kathleen Deveny

  Deputy Editor and Global Business Editor, Newsweek

  Kathleen Deveny was named deputy editor and global business editor in May 2009 and oversees the business, economics and technology coverage of Newsweek, including Enterprise, an expanded business section aimed at high-income readers. She created the "Green Rankings" franchise for the magazine, in which Newsweek ranks the impact that 100 companies have on the environment.

  Ms. Deveny was named assistant managing for the back-of-the-book sections in August 1997. She created "The Tip Sheet," and at various times, she has top edited environment, society, lifestyle, health and arts coverage. Ms. Deveny came to Newsweek from The Wall Street Journal, where she served as editor of the paper’s Marketplace page and earlier as reporter and writer covering consumer-products marketing. Prior to joining The Journal, she was a staff editor and a correspondent at BusinessWeek, where she began her journalism career in 1983.

  Return to Participant Index