Geoff Colvin, senior editor at large at Fortune magazine, is retiring after 48 years.
He has been with the magazine since September 1978.
“There aren’t enough words to describe the impact he’s had on business journalism and Fortune,” wrote executive editor Lee Clifford of LinkedIn. “An absolute legend in every way!”
As a longtime editor and writer for Fortune, he has become one of America’s sharpest and most respected commentators on leadership, globalization, wealth creation, the infotech revolution, and related issues.
“In a long career at Fortune I was endlessly fascinated by change and disruption, and how people deal with these challenges best – especially in the organizations where we spend most of our waking hours,” he wrote on LinkedIn.
He is heard daily on the CBS Radio Network, where he has made over 15,000 broadcasts and reaches seven million listeners each week. He is the author of three books.
A native of Vermillion, South Dakota, Geoff is an honors graduate of Harvard with a degree in economics and has an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
