{"id":2264810,"date":"2026-02-03T15:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2264810"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:24:20","slug":"josh-damaro-named-successor-to-bob-iger-as-next-disney-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/josh-damaro-named-successor-to-bob-iger-as-next-disney-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh D\u2019Amaro Named Successor to Bob Iger as Next Disney CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11730981\/\">Josh D\u2019Amaro<\/a> will be the next CEO of The Walt Disney Corporation, succeeding current CEO <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2250609\/\">Bob Iger<\/a>, the company announced on Tuesday, February 3 after a years-long selection process. D\u2019Amaro, the current head of Disney\u2019s parks division and a 28-year veteran of Disney, won\u2019t wait long until formally being named into the new role, as he takes the job effective March 18.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0992861\/\">Dana Walden<\/a>, who currently leads the studios segment, has been promoted to President and Chief Creative Officer, also effective in March. She\u2019ll report directly to D\u2019Amaro and have oversight over creative decisions at Disney.<\/p>\n<p>Iger in March will transition to a Senior Advisor role and a member of Disney\u2019s board, and he will formally retire on December 31, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJosh D\u2019Amaro possesses that rare combination of inspiring leadership and innovation, a keen eye for strategic growth opportunities, and a deep passion for the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh D\u2019Amaro will be the next CEO of The Walt Disney Corporation, succeeding current CEO Bob Iger, the company announced on Tuesday, February 3 after a years-long selection process. D\u2019Amaro, the current head of Disney\u2019s parks division and a 28-year veteran of Disney, won\u2019t wait long until formally being named into the new role, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2264811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2264810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Josh-DAmaro-Named-Successor-to-Bob-Iger-as-Next-Disney.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264812,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264810\/revisions\/2264812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}