Biography | Bernadette Meehan — The Sansome Street Tower Where Wikimedia Put Its Sixth Chief Executive
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Biography | Bernadette Meehan — The Sansome Street Tower Where Wikimedia Put Its Sixth Chief Executive
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People treat the Wikimedia Foundation as a Florida startup that never left the internet.
The office that hired its sixth chief executive is a leased floor in a 1984 tower at One Sansome Street in San Francisco.
On 9 December 2025 the Foundation announced that Bernadette Meehan would succeed Maryana Iskander.
She took the role on 20 January 2026, the same winter Wikipedia marked twenty-five years.
The announcement was issued from San Francisco and listed the résumé that got her the chair: U.S. ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, executive vice president for global programs at the Obama Foundation, and more than a decade as a Foreign Service officer, including spokesperson for the National Security Council.
The Foundation had moved to this building on 1 October 2024 from One Montgomery Tower, a few blocks west.
Meta-Wiki records the present administrative space as Suite 1895, 2,607 square feet on the eighteenth floor of a 41-story William L. Pereira tower also known as Citigroup Center.
The pin is the public office building, not a private floor plan.
Meehan is a living executive; this memory marks the documented start date at a published headquarters, not a daily routine.
Photo: One Sansome Street by Minesweeper, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Portrait: U.S. Department of State, public domain.
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