Hannah Yang

Hannah Yang is the Chief Growth Officer at The New York Times, leading its $1.4B global subscription business. Ms. Yang has held a variety of positions at The Times, including in business development, advertising sales development, and strategic planning, since joining the Company in 2010. Prior to joining The Times, she was a corporate attorney at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners LLC (now a part of Strategy &). She is on the Board of the Art & Writing Awards, Scholastic's nonprofit that has been supporting creative teens since 1923. She is also on the Board of The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, a nonprofit organization that has helped support people who are less fortunate for 111 years. Until 2017, Hannah was a New York Advisory Committee Member for The News Literacy Project, a leading nonprofit that “teaches students how to know what to believe in the digital age." She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Studies and has a Doctor of Law degree from Harvard Law School. She is also a graduate of the Juilliard Pre-College Division, where she studied classical piano. Ms. Yang’s most rewarding and memorable experience has been to campaign for her father in Taejon, Korea, where he ran for South Korea’s national legislature. She immigrated to the United States from Korea at the age of nine and honed her English by reading The Times. She lives in NYC with her husband and two sons.

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