Peter R. Kann retired in 2007 as Chairman of Dow Jones & Company after 44 years with the company. Over that period he was a reporter and foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, including for 12 years in Asia; the first editor and publisher of the Asian Wall Street Journal; Publisher and Editorial Director of The Wall Street Journal; and for 15 years Chief Executive Officer of Dow Jones.
Mr. Kann won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1972 for his coverage of the India-Pakistan War of 1971.
He currently is an adjunct professor at the Columbia Journalism School and serves on a number of non-profit boards including the Institute for Advanced Study. Mr. Kann, who graduated from Harvard in 1964, is married to Karen Elliott House, also a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and they have four children and three grandchildren.
