Clifton Leaf

Cliff Leaf became the 18th Editor-in-Chief of FORTUNE in March 2017 after serving as deputy editor for the previous three years. Prior to that he was a guest editor for the New York Times op-ed page and held senior positions at the Wall Street Journal’s SmartMoney magazine and FORTUNE.

The founding chairman of the Brainstorm Health conference and a keynote speaker at more than three dozen scientific meetings around the world, Cliff has won numerous awards for his journalism and leadership in the anticancer effort, including the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism and the NIHCM’s Health Care Journalism Award. In 2006, Cliff delivered “Grand Rounds” at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, becoming the first and only journalist to receive that honor.