Clifton Leaf

Clifton Leaf
Clifton Leaf
Editor-In-Chief of Fortune Magazine
	In office; March 2017 – July 2021
Preceded by	Alan Murray
Succeeded by	Alyson Shontell
Personal details
Alma mater	Williams College
Awards	Gerald Loeb Award (2005)

Preceded byAlan Murray

Succeeded byAlyson Shontell

Alma materWilliams College

AwardsGerald Loeb Award (2005)

Clifton Leaf is an American journalist and was the editor-in-chief of Fortune magazine from March 2017 to July 2021. He graduated from Williams College.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

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v t e Fortune
Top editors	Parker Lloyd-Smith Ralph Ingersoll Eric Hodgins Russell Davenport Richardson Wood Ralph D. Paine, Jr. Hedley Donovan Duncan Norton-Taylor Louis Banks Robert Lubar William S. Rukeyser Marshall Loeb Walter Keichel III John Huey Richard Kirkland Eric Pooley Andrew Serwer Alan Murray Clifton Leaf Alyson Shontell
Editorial staff	Geoffrey Colvin John Curran Nina Easton Alfred Winslow Jones David Kirkpatrick Carol Loomis John McDonald Bethany McLean Roger Parloff Daniel Seligman Allan Sloan Herbert Solow Alvin Toffler Shawn Tully
Lists	Fortune 500 Global 500 India 500 Global 2000 40 Under 40 100 Best Companies to Work For
Conferences	Fortune Brainstorm Tech Fortune Global Forum

v t e Gerald Loeb Award winners for Magazines
(1958–1959)	1958: Werner Renberg 1959: Ernest Havermann
(1960–1969)	1960: John A. Conway 1961: Leonard S. Silk 1962: Richard Austin Smith 1962 (SA): John Chamberlain 1962 (SA): Daniel M. Friedenberg 1963: Sandford Brown 1963 (SA): Gilbert H. Clee 1963 (SA): Robert W. Murray, Jr. 1964: John Brooks 1964 (SA): John Maughan 1964 (SA): Max Ways 1965: Lee Silberman 1966: Charles E. Silberman 1967: Max Ways 1968: Michael Laurence 1969: John Brooks
(1970–1979)	1970: John F. Lyons 1971: Chris Welles 1972: Kenneth Auchincloss 1973: Everett Mattlin 1974: Carol J. Loomis 1975: Marshall Loeb 1976: Gordon Williams 1977: Lawrence Minard, David Warsh 1978: Lewis Lapham 1978 (HM): William Tucker 1979: William Tucker 1979 (HM): Robert Heilbroner
(1980–1989)	1980: Walter Guzzardi Jr. 1981: William Tucker 1982: L. J. Davis 1983: Joseph Nocera 1984: Andrew Tobias 1985 (tie): Richard L. Stern 1985 (tie): Howard Rudnitsky, Allan Sloan 1986: Barbara Donnelly 1987: William C. Symonds 1988: Robert Heilbroner 1989 (tie): Eric Schurenberg, Lani Luciano 1989 (tie): Carol J. Loomis
(1990–1999)	1990: Peter Brimelow, Leslie Spencer 1991 (tie): Connie Bruck 1991 (tie): Joseph S. Coyle, Frank Lalli, Elizabeth MacDonald, Denise Topolnicki, Robert Wool 1992 (tie): Jonathan Beaty, S. C. Gwynne 1992 (tie): Richard Behar 1993: Brian O'Reilly 1994: Bryan Burrough 1995: Phillip Longman 1996: Joseph Nocera 1997: Mark Maremont, Jane Sasseen 1998: Dean Foust, Michael Mandel 1999: Shane Tritsch
(2000–2009)	2000: Jeff Blyskal 2001: Gary Rivlin 2002: Nanette Byrnes, David Henry 2003: Hal Lux 2004: Aaron Bernstein, Pete Engardio, Manjeet Kripalani 2005 (tie): Charles Fishman 2005 (tie): Clifton Leaf 2006: Carol Loomis 2007: Charles Fishman 2008 (tie): Michael Lewis 2008 (tie): Allan Sloan 2009: David Leonhardt
(2010–2014)	2010: James Bandler 2011: Charles R. Babcock, Amanda Bennett 2012: Doris Burke, Peter Elkind, Jennifer Reingold 2013 (tie): Connie Bruck 2013 (tie): Robert Capps 2014: Cam Simpson

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Clifton Leaf

Editor-In-Chief of Fortune Magazine
In office March 2017 – July 2021
Preceded by	Alan Murray
Succeeded by	Alyson Shontell

Personal details
Alma mater	Williams College
Awards	Gerald Loeb Award (2005)