The Radio Netherlands Board of Governors has appointed Jan Hoek as the new Director General of Radio Netherlands. The appointment has the formal approval of the Dutch State Secretary for Culture and Media, Mrs Medy van der Laan.
Jan Hoek is the successor to Lodewijk Bouwens who retired at the end of last year. Jan Hoek has been Acting Director General of Holland’s international broadcasting service since the start of 2004.
Jan joined the Dutch external broadcasting service in 1994 as Financial Controller, becoming Director of Finance and Logistics a year later. He has previously worked for the Wegener publishing group and for KLM. He holds an MBA from Webster University.
Radio Netherlands is the international public broadcasting organization of the Netherlands. Via radio, television (BVN-TV) and internet, Radio Netherlands offers news, information and culture in eight languages. With its various activities, it reaches some 50 million people a week.