Gary Evan Knell

ABOUT GARY EVAN KNELL

California-born businessman and non-profit leader who became CEO and President of the National Geographic Society in 2014. He had previously held the same executive position with National Public Radio (NPR). He has garnered a strong following on his garyknell Twitter account for his news-related content.

After graduating from the University of California-Los Angeles with a degree in political science, he attended Loyola Law School.

He served for over a decade as CEO of the Sesame Workshop. In April of 2022, he made a popular tweet about Jackie Robinson .

He and his wife, Kim Larson, raised four children.

Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell was one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society, a non-profit organization that Knell later led.