David Carey is Senior Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications at Hearst. In this role, Carey oversees corporate communications as well as sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion and corporate citizenship reporting. Previously, Carey served as chairman of Hearst Magazines after serving as president from 2010 to 2018. In 2019, he became a fellow at Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, an annual university-wide program that selects a small group of senior executives from around the world to spend two semesters on the Harvard campus studying solutions to large-scale societal problems. Carey serves as a trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art. He also serves on the board of directors of Harvard Business Publishing and is a member of the advisory board of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.