Bill Owens is the former executive producer of the venerable CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes.” Owens led the show past a historic milestone in 2023-24 as it marked 50 straight seasons as the No. 1 news show across all broadcast and cable. The first time any program on television has reigned as No. 1 for five decades. In its 56th season, “60 Minutes” reached one in three Americans at least once on linear and live streaming.

Owens has helmed the broadcast for landmark interviews with President Joe Biden, President Donald Trump, Pope Francis, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell. He has overseen consequential investigations including the five-year report on Havana Syndrome that revealed, for the first time, that Russia could be behind potential attacks on American government officials; a year-long investigation into the looting of Cambodian antiquities that have ended up in American museums, including the Met; and a look into Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the 2020 presidential election.

Owens has steered 60 Minutes through the COVID-19 pandemic, the impeachments of former President Donald Trump, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war and more. Owens was named executive producer in February 2019 after 12 years of supervising the broadcast’s content in two senior positions. First as senior producer and then as executive editor, Owens had editorial and production input in the creation of nearly a thousand “60 Minutes” segments from conception through screening and broadcast.

Owens is from Oyster Bay, New York. He graduated from Towson University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mass communications. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and has two children.