• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Walter Isaacson

Tulane University

Leonard Lauder Professor of American History and Values

Walter Isaacson is a Professor of History at Tulane. He has been the editor of Time Magazine, the CEO and Chairman of CNN, and the CEO of the Aspen Institute. He is an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg, a financial services firm based in New York City, a cohost of the PBS show Amanpour & Co., a contributor to CNBC, and host of the podcast “Trailblazers, from Dell Technologies.” He is the author of The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (2021), Leonardo da Vinci (2017), The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014), Steve Jobs (2011), Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986).

 

Sessions With Walter Isaacson

Thursday, 21 March

  • 04:30pm - 05:10pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 09:30 pm - 21/mar/2024 10:10 pm

    Book Talk with Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk
  • 07:30pm - 09:00pm (CST) / 22/mar/2024 12:30 am - 22/mar/2024 02:00 am

    Dinner & Dialogue | Innovators: What makes them innovate?
    Digitalization/AI/Machine Learning/Robotics/Cybersecurity

    Walter Isaacson offers unique insight into innovation and the character of innovators and what enables them to succeed.  He has chronicled historic steps forward in technology and the people who made them happen—most recently in his acclaimed new biography of Elon Musk. That is one of a series of extraordinary biographies—of Steve Jobs, Leonardo DaVinci, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Nobel prize winner Jennifer Doudna. Walter shares his thoughts and what he’s learned in a wide-ranging conversation with Daniel Yergin. Formerly editor of Time Magazine and CEO of CNN, Walter is now professor of history at Tulane University and host of “Amanpour and Company” on PBS and CNN.