Jim Glassman was the first editor-in-chief and executive publisher of The American, a magazine of ideas focusing on business, economics, and public affairs. His recent work at AEI has been dedicated to the intersection of policy, finance and technology. For more than a decade, he wrote an investing column for the Washington Post, as well as two books on finance, most recently The Secret Code of the Superior Investor. On June 8, after unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate, he was sworn in as chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees all U.S. government non-military international broadcasting, including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Alhurra. Before coming to AEI, he was publisher of both The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly and editor of the congressional newspaper Roll Call.