Ben Sherwood — Co-Chairman of Disney Media Networks and President of Disney | ABC Television Group at The Walt Disney Company

Mr. Ben Sherwood has been the President of Disney/ABC International Television, Inc. and as Co-Chairman of Disney Media Networks since February 1, 2015. Mr. Sherwood served as Co-President at ABC News since December 2010 until January 2015 and served as its Co-President of Disney-ABC Television Group from March 24, 2014 to January 2015. Mr. Sherwood is responsible for all aspects of ABC News' broadcasts, including World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer, Nightline, Good Morning America, 20/20, Primetime and This Week with Christiane Amanpour. In addition, Mr. Sherwood oversees ABC News Radio, ABCNEWS.com, ABC News' satellite service, NewsOne and ABC News NOW. In January 2009, Mr. Sherwood Founded TheSurvivorsClub.org, an online resource center and support network for people surviving and thriving in the face of all kinds of adversity. Mr. Sherwood began to explore a career in journalism with student internships at KCET public television in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau and the CBS Evening News. Mr. Sherwood launched his journalistic career in earnest when he joined ABC News in 1989, serving as an investigative associate producer and producer for ABC News' PrimeTime Live with hosts Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson. During that time his investigative reports explored flaws in the secretive B-2 stealth bomber program, the dangers of unlicensed mental health practitioners and the unheralded risks of an overprescribed heart medication. In 1997 Mr. Sherwood joined NBC's Nightly News as broadcast producer responsible for In Depth reports, then Senior Producer and ultimately Senior Broadcast Producer, where he helped guide coverage of the September 11th attacks and the controversy in Florida surrounding the 2000 Presidential election. Mr. Sherwood returned to ABC News in April 2004 as Executive Producer of the network's award-winning morning program, Good Morning America. Mr. Sherwood serves as a Member of The Board of Directors of City Year (Los Angeles) and a Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC. He is also a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. During his tenure with the network, Mr. Sherwood guided GMA to the two most successful seasons in its history, while overseeing prize-winning coverage of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the devastation of hurricane Katrina and the presidential election of 2004. Over the years, Mr. Sherwood's journalism and non-fiction essays have been published in many respected publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, New Republic, Washington Monthly, Parade and O magazine. He is also the author of two critically acclaimed best-selling novels: The Man Who Ate the 747 (2000) and The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud (2004). His fiction has been published around the world. In July 2010, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud was adapted as a feature film starring Zac Efron and was released by Universal Pictures under the title Charlie St. Cloud. The Man Who Ate the 747 is also being developed as a major motion picture and Broadway musical. Mr. Sherwood's latest book, The Survivors Club, is a non-fiction exploration of the science and secrets of who bounces back from everyday adversity and who doesn't; who beats life-threatening disease and who succumbs; and who triumphs after economic hardship and who surrenders. The book became an instant New York Times bestseller and has been featured widely in print and on television. He is a graduate of Harvard College in 1986, Mr. Sherwood earned an AB degree in American government and history. From 1986 to 1989, as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, he earned masters degrees in British imperial history and development economics.