Keith Bellows is a vice president of the National Geographic Society and editor in chief of National Geographic Traveler magazine, the mostly widely read travel magazine in the world and nominated for a 2003 National Magazine Award for general excellence.



Prior to joining the National Geographic Society in 1998, Bellows was executive producer of the search engine Excite. He also launched BabyCenter, a San Francisco-based Internet and print service, and ran his own media development company, Westworld Media.



Bellows has also served as editor of the Smart Health/Smart Parenting Division of the New York-based Meigher Communications and as president and founding partner of the Media Development Group Inc., a Tennessee media company that created and launched new media properties, including City Passports, a series of travel titles, and the "1996 Guide to the Atlanta Olympics," for Marblehead Communications.



He spent 12 years at Whittle Communications, where he developed and managed more than 30 magazines, audio and video projects.



Among the media outlets for which Bellows has worked are Sports Illustrated, ESPN and Reader's Digest. He is the author of "The Canuck Book" and the 1998 Winter Olympics ACCESS Guide for ABC-TV.



A Canadian citizen, Bellows was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and was schooled at Gordonstoun School in Scotland and Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.