Radhika Jones

Editor-in-Chief, Vanity Fair

Radhika Jones is Editor-in-Chief of Vanity Fair magazine and the first person of color to be named to the post since the magazine was founded in 1913. She formerly served as the editorial director for the books department at The New York Times, deputy managing editor of TIME (where she managed the TIME 100 and Person of the Year efforts), and the managing editor of The Paris Review. A cultural omnivore who’s deeply versed in books, art, politics, and more, Radhika holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia.