Mark K. Updegrove
President and CEO, LBJ Foundation
mku@lbjfoundation.org
Mark K. Updegrove is the president and CEO of the LBJ Foundation and serves as Presidential Historian for ABC News. From 2009 to 2017, he was the director of the LBJ Presidential Library.
Updegrove is the author of six books on the presidency including his latest, Make Your Mark: Lessons in Character from Seven Presidents, and is the host of the PBS series “Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove.” He has written for the New York Times, Politico, TIME, National Geographic, the Daily Beast, and USA Today, and has conducted exclusive interviews with seven U.S. presidents.
Earlier in his career, he was publisher of Newsweek and president of TIME Magazine’s Canadian edition. He is married to Amy Banner Updegrove, an artist and the former publisher of Texas Monthly.
