Lisa Hughes

Lisa Hughes is 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 live event platforms and helped the brand achieve a sustained level of profitability, including its most profitable year ever, in 2013. In 2015, The New Yorker claimed the number two spot on Advertising Age’s coveted A-List, while AdWeek named the publication its “Hottest Thought Leader” the year prior.

The New Yorker has received numerous other industry accolades under Hughes’s watch. In 2011, The New Yorker was included in Advertising Age’s “A-List” of the ten top-performing magazines of the year and was a finalist for Adweek’s “Hot List.” Hughes, along with New Yorker editor David Remnick, also received the Condé Nast Collaborative Leadership Award that year. She received the MIN Mentor of the Year award in 2013 and was named “Magazine Publisher of the Year” by the Delaney Report in 2015.

Prior to joining The New Yorker, Hughes served as publisher of Condé Nast Traveler (1999-2009), where she guided the magazine through the most successful period in its then-21-year history. In 2009, she was named to MIN’s Sales Executive Hall of Fame. In 2008, Condé Nast Traveler was on both Adweek’s “Hot List” and Advertising Age’s “A-List,” and the magazine also made the “A-List” in 2004.

Hughes was Condé Nast’s Publisher of the Year in 2000 and 2004. Also in 2004, she was recognized as one of Advertising Age’s “Media Mavens.”

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.