Anna Wintour has been Editor in Chief of Vogue since July 1988.

Ms. Wintour joined Condé Nast in 1983 as Creative Director of Vogue, and in 1986 she returned to her native England to become Editor in Chief of British Vogue. She was Editor in Chief of HG from September 1987 until 1988, when she rejoined Vogue in her present position.

Ms. Wintour began her career in 1970 in the fashion department of Harpers & Queen magazine in London. In 1976 she moved to New York and joined Harper's Bazaar as a fashion editor. Next, she joined New York as senior editor, and in that capacity produced the magazine's fashion, style, and living coverage before moving on to Vogue.

Ms. Wintour has been actively involved in fund-raising, particularly for AIDS research and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1990, Ms. Wintour played a strategic role in developing the fashion industry's AIDS charity program the CFDA/Vogue Initiative, through which she has helped raise more than $12 million, chiefly through the highly renowned 7th on Sale program.

She has been the recipient of various awards for her leadership and philanthropic efforts, most notably the CFDA Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Award of Courage for AIDS Research from amFAR.

From 1995 to the present, Ms. Wintour has co-chaired 11 fundraising galas for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, which together have raised more than $44.5 million. In recognition of her work on its behalf, the museum named Ms. Wintour Honorary Trustee in 1998.

In addition to editing Vogue. Ms. Wintour executed the development and launch of Teen Vogue in 2001 and acts as Editorial Director for the title.

Ms. Wintour spearheaded the establishment of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2003, an unprecedented initiative to aid emerging American fashion designers in the struggle to build a successful business. The Fund has not only become an anticipated annual hallmark of the American fashion industry, it has also inspired European fashion communities to begin like programs of their own.

In September, 2009, Ms. Wintour oversaw the first ever Fashion’s Night Out, a global initiative of Vogue-coordinated evening extravaganzas designed to promote retail, restore consumer confidence and celebrate fashion. The evening resulted in unprecedented crowds shopping in the world’s fashion capitals. That same month, Ms. Wintour was named one of the most powerful U.S. fashion magazine editors by Forbes magazine.