Katherine "Kate" Betts was named editor of TIME Style & Design in April 2003. TIME Style & Design is published four times a year in the United States and Europe and twice a year in Asia.

Betts was the editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar from June 1999 to June 2001. She took over the magazine at the age of 35 and completely redesigned the 134-year-old fashion title. Kate moved to Bazaar from Vogue where she was Fashion News Director from 1991 to 1999. At Vogue, Kate was responsible for developing and producing all fashion features including runway reports, designer profiles, and popular culture stories. Kate was editor of many of the magazine's most popular sections, including "Vogue's View" and "Vogue's Index," a special shopping section that she created in 1995.

Previously, Kate was a reporter and later the bureau chief of the Paris office of Fairchild Publications from 1988 to 1991. While she managed the Paris office of the daily trade newspaper WWD, W and M magazines, she helped conceive and launch W Europe. From 1986 to 1988, she held various positions including Paris editor of Metropolitan Home and stints at The International Herald Tribune and European Travel & Life.

Kate has appeared on network and cable television regularly since 1993, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, The View, E!, CNNfn, CNN This American Morning, VH1, and Charlie Rose. She was also the subject of a Lifetime documentary, "Putting Baby To Bed: Wife, Mother, and Editor in Chief," about her experience as the youngest editor ever to take over a fashion magazine.

Kate is a graduate of Princeton University, she resides in New York with her husband and two children.