Bill Keller (born January 18, 1949) is executive editor of The New York Times. Keller is the son of former chairman and chief executive of the Chevron Corporation, George M. Keller, Bill Keller attended the Roman Catholic schools St. Matthews and Junípero Serra High School in San Mateo, California. After graduating from Pomona College in 1970 where he began his journalistic career by founding an independent newspaper called The Collegian (later called The Collage), he was a reporter in Portland with The Oregonian, the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, and at The Dallas Times Herald.

He joined The New York Times in 1984 and served in the following capacities:

Keller won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his reporting on the breakup of the former Soviet Union (USSR).