Speakers

Victoria Pope is the deputy editor of National Geographic magazine and its chief editor for text. She plays a leading role in the magazine’s story development and is actively involved in the magazine’s liaison with its International Editions. Before joining National Geographic, she was with U.S. News & World Report. While there, she supervised the magazine’s coverage of health, medicine, culture, history, science and education and served as managing editor, foreign editor, investigative reporter and Moscow correspondent. Her positions in editing and magazine management followed more than a decade as a foreign correspondent in Germany, Austria, Poland, and Russia. She covered the imposition of martial law in Poland for the Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal and was a correspondent in Moscow for U.S. News & World Report at the time of the coup against Gorbachev.