Currently a New York Times reporter, Keller was the executive editor of the paper from 2003-2011.

The son of former Chevron CEO George Keller, Bill attended Pomona and worked at Portland's Oregonian from 1970 to 1979, later taking jobs at Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report and the Dallas Times Herald. In 1984, Keller joined the Times; two years into his tenure, he was dispatched to Moscow, where he impressed his editorial bosses back in New York with his dogged reporting of the unraveling of the Soviet Union. Keller won a Pulitzer for his Russian reporting and, in 1992, left Moscow to cover another disintegrating regime: the apartheid government of South Africa. He returned to New York in the mid-90s and became the Times' managing editor. He was named executive editor in 2003, when his predecessor, Howell Raines, was forced to resign after the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal.

Keller abdicated the executive editor's throne to Jill Abramson on June 2, 2011; he wanted to return to full-time writing, as had been foreshadowed by his controversial role as a Times Magazine columnist.

Keller has been married three times; he met his current wife, Emma Gilbey, after she wrote a letter to the editor about a piece he'd written in the paper. He called her and invited her to stop by the office for coffee and the two hit it off. He married Gibey In 1999, after divorcing his second wife, reporter Ann Cooper. [Image via AP]