Lisa Hughes was named chief business officer of The New Yorker in January 2017. In addition to overseeing revenue of The New Yorker, Hughes works directly with clients, as well as colleagues on the industry team to bring innovative solutions to market and grow the heritage of the brand.
Hughes most recently served as the publisher and chief revenue officer of The New Yorker, a role she has held since February 2009. Under her tenure, she has brought The New Yorker’s sales and marketing efforts to new heights across print, digital, and events and helped the brand achieve a sustained level of profitability.
The New Yorker has received numerous industry accolades under Hughes’s watch. In 2016, The New Yorker swept Advertising Age’s top honors: Magazine of the Year; Publisher of the Year, for Hughes; and Editor of the Year, for David Remnick. The brand was also named AdWeek’s “Hottest Thought Leader” for the second consecutive year. This follows a run of other honors, including a place on Advertising Age’s A-List in 2011 and 2015. Also in 2011, Hughes, along with Remnick, received the Condé Nast Collaborative Leadership Award.
Prior to joining The New Yorker, Hughes served as the publisher of Condé Nast Traveler for ten years, from 1999 to 2009, where she guided the magazine through the most successful period in its then-twenty-one-year history. In 2008, Condé Nast Traveler was named to both Adweek’s Hot List and Advertising Age’s A-List, and the magazine also made the A-List in 2004. While at Traveler, Hughes was named Condé Nast’s Publisher of the Year in 2000 and 2004.
Hughes has held a number of positions at Condé Nast, including Vice President and Publisher of House & Garden. Prior to that, she was Advertising Director and then Associate Publisher of Vanity Fair. She was a member of the launch team of Allure, where she was Advertising Director and began her career with Condé Nast in sales at Mademoiselle.
Hughes received her B.A. from Harvard, where she majored in Art History. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.