Christopher Isham

President, CT Intelligence, USA

Christopher Isham is President of CT Intelligence, USA.

Previously, (2007-2020) Mr. Isham was Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief for CBS News. He was responsible for all the activity of that bureau, including news gathering, personnel and technical operations. The bureau is CBS News’ largest and is the major contributor to all CBS News broadcasts and digital platforms.

Prior to joining CBS News, Isham was the Chief of Investigative Projects for ABC News in New York, where he built an investigative unit recognized as one of the most successful of its kind in television news. Under his leadership, the ABC News Investigative Unit broke hundreds of exclusive reports on a wide range of topics from terrorism to political corruption.

Isham has been recognized with all of the major awards in the broadcast industry including numerous news Emmys, two Columbia DuPont Awards, a Peabody Award, four National Headliners Awards, two Overseas Press Club Awards, the ABA Gavel Award, the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award and three Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) and an Investigative Editors and Reporters Award for online journalism.

Mr. Isham has worked and travelled extensively throughout the Middle East, South Asia and Europe. Mr. Isham is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of Washington DC. He graduated from Yale College in 1976 and Groton School in 1971. The son of a U.S. Foreign Service officer, Isham was born in Berlin and has lived in Moscow, Hong Kong, Paris, Haiti and Washington D.C.