Keith Berwick is a Senior Fellow of the Aspen Institute and the inaugural holder of the Keith Berwick Chair of Leadership. From 1996 to 2007 he served as co-founding Executive Director of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program and from 2003 to 2004 was also the Executive Vice President for Seminars of the Aspen Institute.
A native Canadian, Berwick has had a long and varied career as a historian, educator, television broadcaster, newspaper publisher and editor. He was educated at Syracuse University and the University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D. degree in U.S. history. He has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Claremont Graduate School; Pepperdine University and the University of Southern California Graduate School of Business, and has lectured extensively at colleges and universities around the world.
Berwick is a four-time Emmy Award winning television broadcaster and principal of Berwick Communication, Inc., a newspaper and communication consulting company. He was founding president of Barry Ambrosetti & Associates, an Italian-American joint venture in global strategic planning, associate editor of Pacific Historical Review and editor of New Management magazine. From 1990 to 1996 he and his wife Sheena were publishers of the Country News, a weekly newspaper on California's Central Coast.
Berwick is author of The American Revolutionary Experience, 1776-1976 and The Federal Age, 1789-1829: America in the Process of Becoming, among other historical works. He is currently at work on The Search for an American Hero, a book about the American presidency. He and his wife Sheena make their home in Santa Barbara, California
