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Almar Latour is Publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of Dow Jones, a world-leading news and business information services company.

He was named CEO in 2020 and, under his leadership, Dow Jones has delivered record financial results, more than doubling profitability in four years, with significant growth in subscriptions and business information services. The company has doubled digital subscriptions, while safeguarding The Wall Street Journal's reputation as one of the world's most-trusted news organizations. Dow Jones's portfolio of business information offerings including Factiva, OPIS and Risk & Compliance provide businesses with key data and insights to make better decisions.

Almar has an extensive track record of building successful news media businesses in the digital age. He oversaw the creation of the Barron's Group, quadrupling the group's digital audience at Barron's and MarketWatch, and led the modernization of The Wall Street Journal's website. Almar also led the development of The Wall Street Journal in Japan, Korea and China.

Almar has been stationed as a journalist in Brussels, London, Stockholm, New York and Hong Kong. He has also served as a bureau chief in New York, the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal online, and the editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones in Asia-Pacific before being appointed its Executive Editor.

He is a native of the Netherlands and lives in New York City.