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Eric Nee

Managing Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review

Biography

Eric Nee is the managing editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), a position he has held since 2006. SSIR-a part of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society-produces a quarterly magazine, online articles, podcasts, videos, webinars, and conferences, reaching millions of leaders of social change organizations globally each year. Nee has 35 years of experience in the publishing industry, most of it covering the high-tech industry in Silicon Valley. Before joining Stanford University, he was a senior writer for Fortune in the Palo Alto, Calif., bureau. He also helped Time Inc. launch eCompany Now in San Francisco (where he was executive editor), which later became Business 2.0. Before joining Fortune, Nee launched Forbes's Silicon Valley bureau, where he led the publication's four-person bureau and wrote several cover stories, including the magazine's first cover story on the Internet. He also served as editor-in-chief of Upside for close to five years. Nee is the author of the book Information for Everyone: The Applied Materials Story. He earned a B.A. in American Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a M.S.J. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He lives in Palo Alto, Calif., with his wife Tekla Perry, a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum.