editor-in-chief

noun1

1. •
   The highest-ranking editor on an editorial staff.

   • “He accused us of slandering him, presumably by implying he was a hipster, and of using the pic without his permission,” Gideon Lichfield, the Review’s editor-in-chief, explained Tuesday on Twitter. — 2019

noun1

1. •
   An honorific for the editor-in-chief of a publication.