The Broadcasting Board of Governors is pleased to announce that Jeffrey Trimble will succeed Jan Brambilla as the Executive Director of the BBG, effective April 14, 2008. Jan will become the BBGs Director of Management Planning, to increase coordination on management and personnel issues and the exchange of information with the IBB, VOA, OCB, RFE/RL, RFA, and MBN.
As Executive Director, Jeff will advise the Board on developments in international broadcasting and will manage the BBG staff, which provides the Board with technical, professional, and administrative support as well as strategic guidance and program oversight.
Jeff joined the BBG in 2007 as Director of Programming. From 1997 to
2007 he worked at RFE/RL, where he was Acting President, Counselor to the President for Programs and Policy, Director of Policy and Strategic Planning, Director of Broadcasting, and Associate Director of Broadcasting. He worked at U.S. News & World Report magazine from 1982 to 1997 as an Assistant Managing Editor, Foreign Editor, Deputy Foreign Editor, Moscow Bureau Chief, Mediterranean Bureau Chief, diplomatic correspondent, and New York correspondent.
In her new role, Jan will advise and make recommendations to the Board and the Executive Director on agency-wide issues involving management and personnel strategies and programs. She will coordinate development of management strategies, initiatives, and plans involving all BBG entities.
With more than 34 years of Federal service, Jan has served in senior executive positions since 1987 when she was appointed Director of Human Resources for the Voice of America, and subsequently for the U.S.
Information Agency. In 1999, she joined the Department of State and served as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy where she handled financial and human resources. In January 2005, Jan served as the Chief of Staff to the IBB Director. In June 2006, she was appointed as the Executive Director of the BBG.