CCD Board Member Jeffrey Gedmin Named President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
March 5, 2007
RFE/RL Press Release: Jeffrey Gedmin Named President of Radio FreeEurope/Radio Liberty

The Council for a Community of Democracies sends its congratulations and best wishes to Jeffrey Gedmin, a member of CCD’s Board of Directors, for recently being appointed President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.  Dr. Gedmin was formerly the director of the Aspen Institute in Berlin. 

Prior to his position at the Aspen Institute, Dr. Gedmin worked as resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and as executive director of the New Atlantic Initiative. Gedmin’s articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the New Republic, National Review, and the Weekly Standard. He is the author of The Hidden Hand: Gorbachev and the Collapse of East Germany (1992) and editor of European Integration and the American Interest (AEI Press, 1997) and A Single European Currency? (AEI Press, 1997). He was executive editor and producer of the award winning PBS television program, The Germans, Portrait of a New Nation.

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