Catie Marron

Catie Marron’s career has encompassed investment banking, magazine journalism, public service and book publishing.

Marron is the creator and editor of two anthologies which explore the value and significance of urban public spaces: City Squares, Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World (2016), and City Parks: Public Places, Private Thoughts (2013), both published by Harper Collins. She is currently writing her first book, also for Harper, to be published in the fall 2021, which explores, through her own experiences and those of highly regarded writers, how gardens and the process of their creation enrich lives.

Marron has held leadership positions at a number of organizations, including The New York Public Library, where she was chairman of the board from 2004 – 2011, and is now chair emeritus and a trustee. She is also a trustee of Friends of the High Line, where she was board chair from 2013 – 2018.  She is a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

After graduating from Wellesley College, Marron began her career in investment banking, first at Morgan Stanley and then at Lehman Brothers, where she became a Vice President in Corporate Finance. After getting married, she switched careers to magazine journalism and joined Conde Nast Publications. Marron was a Senior Features Editor at Vogue, and later a contributing editor until September 2020, when the masthead was discontinued.

While creating her two books, Marron founded and launched Good Companies, a curated, online guide to “more-than-profit” brands in which mission driven companies strive to do good while also making a profit. This venture was shaped in part by the success of Treasure & Bond, a pop-up store that she co-founded with Nordstrom and Anna Wintour where all profits went to charities benefiting NYC children.

She lives in New York City with her family.