David Kellogg - 2009 Fellow

DAVID KELLOGG, senior vice president and publisher, Council on Foreign Relations

David Kellogg directs all print and online publishing activities for the nonprofit Council on Foreign Relations, including the bimonthly Foreign Affairs; ForeignAffairs.org, the magazine’s website; the award-winning CFR.org; all web development and operations; and production and marketing of reports and other expert publications from the organization’s think tank.

As publisher of Foreign Affairs, since 1987, Kellogg has been responsible for all business and marketing operations, including circulation, fulfillment, ad sales, manufacturing and distribution, and finance. During his time with the magazine, paid circulation has nearly doubled to its current 160,000, and advertising revenue has quadrupled. In 1996 he oversaw the launch of ForeignAffairs.org, and has inaugurated three foreign language versions of the magazine. Foreign Affairs is one of the few serious publications to be consistently profitable.

Since 2005, Kellogg has directed CFR.org, which has seen average monthly unique visitors grow from 90,000 in 2005 to close to 500,000 currently. The site received a 2007 Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism for its multimedia Crisis Guides, and won a 2008 News and Documentary Emmy for its Crisis Guide: Darfur. The Online News Association named CFR.org Best Specialty News Site in 2007.

From 1999 to 2008, Kellogg also directed CFR’s Corporate Membership Program, which now engages the executives of 250 leading international companies in the activities and substantive work of the organization, has become its largest source of unrestricted funding.

Before joining CFR in 1983, Kellogg held positions in television and book publishing. He is a cum laude graduate of Yale. He is married to Sandra Kellogg, a clinical social worker, and has two sons. He lives in Chappaqua, New York.