Sunday, May 27, 2012


Governance and Corporate Leadership

RFE/RL, Inc. is a private, nonprofit corporation, funded by the U.S. Congress through the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). BBG members Dennis Mulhaupt and Susan McCue serve as the chair and vice-chair, respectively, of RFE/RL's corporate board.

Under IRS rules, RFE/RL, Inc. is a private, nonprofit Sec. 501(c) 3 corporation. Chartered in Delaware, it receives federal grants as a private grantee. RFE/RL maintains a corporate office in Washington, D.C.


RFE/RL's corporate board is made up of all members of the BBG:
 

Dennis Mulhaupt, RFE/RL Corporate Board Chair
Dennis Mulhaupt is founder and Managing Director of Commonwealth Partners, Inc., a firm which provides advisory services to philanthropic institutions and families. He began his career working in an investment bank in London and subsequently established the West Coast international political and economic risk advisory department at a major U. S. financial services company. [READ MORE]

Susan McCue, RFE/RL Corporate Board Vice-Chair
Susan McCue is President of Message Global, a strategic advocacy firm she founded in 2008 for social action campaigns. She was the founding President and CEO of The ONE Campaign to combat extreme global poverty and was Chief of Staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid from 1999 to 2006. [READ MORE]

Victor H. Ashe
Ambassador Ashe holds the distinction of being the longest serving mayor of Knoxville. During his time in office, from 1988 to 2003, he was the President to the U.S. Conference of Mayors from 1994 to 1995 and received their Distinguished Service Award for Leadership in 2003. [READ MORE]

Michael Lynton
Michael Lynton is the Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment. He is the former CEO of AOL Europe and Chairman and CEO of Pearson plc’s Penguin Group. [READ MORE]

Michael P. Meehan
Michael P. Meehan currently serves as Co-Founder and CEO of Venn² Communications. He also served as the first President of BGR Public Relations, LLC. For over two decades, Meehan served in senior roles for U.S. Senators John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, Maria Cantwell and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, two presidential campaigns, two U.S. House offices and congressional campaigns in 25 states. [READ MORE]

Dana Perino
Dana Perino is the founder of Dana Perino and Company, a strategic communications firm, a member of the Burson-Marsteller Global Strategy Team, and a Fox News Contributor. She is the former White House Press Secretary to President George W. Bush – the first Republican woman to hold that position. [READ MORE]

Hillary Rodham Clinton
On January 21, 2009, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the 67th Secretary of State of the United States. [READ MORE]

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    In addition to providing general oversight, the BBG serves as a firewall to protect the professional independence and integrity of all civilian U.S. international broadacasters, including Voice of America,  Radio and TV Marti and the non-profit corporations that are BBG grantees: Radio Free Asia, RFE/RL and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (Alhurra, Radio Sawa).

    RFE/RL’s corporate officers are:


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