Alan Webber

Alan Webber (born September 18, 1948, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American entrepreneur, writer and progressive Democrat who unsuccessfully ran for Governor of New Mexico in 2014. Following his run for Governor, Webber founded One New Mexico, a solution-oriented nonprofit aimed at advancing New Mexico's economic outlook, nurturing entrepreneurship and innovation and connecting New Mexicans statewide. In 1981, Webber worked as an employee of the Harvard Business School, where he went on to serve for six years as managing editor and editorial director of the Harvard Business Review. In 1995, Webber co-founded the technology business magazine, Fast Company, where he was named Adweek's Editor of the Year in 1999. In 2000, investors sold Fast Company for $360 million, which was at the time the second highest price ever paid for a U.S. magazine.

Webber's father was a camera salesman. Webber started school at DeMun School in Clayton, and later attended St. Louis Country Day School in St. Louis; he went on to graduate from Amherst College with a B.A. in English. While an employee of Harvard Business School, Webber worked with faculty on Changing Alliances, a book-length study of the competitiveness of the U.S. auto industry.

After graduating from Amherst, Webber moved to Portland, Oregon where he worked at a start-up political journal, The Oregon Times. Subsequently, he served in the office of then-Portland City Council member Neil Goldschmidt and continued as his administrative assistant and policy advisor when he became Mayor of Portland in 1972. The years Webber spent working alongside Goldschmidt resulted in Webber identifying Goldschmidt as his dear friend and mentor.

Beginning in 1978, Webber served as editorial page editor of the alternative Oregon weekly newspaper, Willamette Week, where he received an Oregon State Newspaper Publisher’s Association Award for news and feature writing.

In 1980, Webber and his family moved to Washington, DC, when Goldschmidt was named Secretary of Transportation in the Carter administration. While working as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Transportation, Webber worked on the Chrysler Corporation bailout, the crisis in the U.S. auto industry, and overall national economic competitiveness issues.

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