Broadcasting Board of Governors

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BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS

330 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20237

Phone, 202-203-4545. Internet, www.bbg.gov

Chairman James K. Glassman

Members Joaquin F. Blaya, Blanquita Walsh Cullum, D. Jeffrey Hirschberg, Edward E. Kaufman, Steven J. Simmons (2 vacancies)

(Secretary of State, ex officio) Condoleezza Rice

Executive Director Jeffrey Trimble

Director of Management Planning Janice Brambilla

Legal Counsel Timi E. Kenealy, Acting

Chief Financial Officer Janet Stormes

Congressional Coordinator Susan Andross

Communications Coordinator Larry Hart

Strategic Planning Manager Bruce Sherman

Policy and Program Coordinator John Giambalvo

Special Projects Officer Oanh Tran

Chief Information Officer Vincent Nowicki

General Counsel Timi E. Kenealy, Acting

Director, International Broadcasting Bureau (vacancy)

Deputy Director, International Broadcasting Danforth W. Austin, Bureau Acting

Chief of Staff Marie Lennon

Director, Office of Civil Rights Delia L. Johnson

Associate Director for Program Support Gary Thatcher

Director, Office of Engineering and Technical Vincent Nowicki

Services

Director, Voice of America Danforth W. Austin

Chief of Staff Barbara Brady, Acting

Executive Editor Steve Redisch

Associate Director for Language John Lennon

Programming

Associate Director for Operations Mark L. Prahl

Director, Office of Cuba Broadcasting Pedro V. Roig

President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Jeffrey Gedmin

President, Radio Free Asia Libby Liu

President, Middle East Broadcasting Networks Brian T. Conniff

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The Broadcasting Board of Governors' mission is to promote freedom and democracy and to enhance understanding by broadcasting accurate, objective, and balanced news and information about the United States and the world to audiences abroad.

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) became an independent agency on October 1, 1999, by authority of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring

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Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6501 note). It is composed on nine members. Eight members are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate; the ninth, an ex-officio member, is the Secretary of State.

The BBG serves as the governing body for all nonmilitary U.S. broadcasting and provides programming in 56 languages via radio, television, and the Internet. The BBG broadcast services include the Voice of America, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/

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