S. Enders Wimbush has been elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc. (MBN). In addition to serving on the Broadcasting Board of Governors, where he also chairs the Strategy and Budget Committee, Wimbush is Senior Director, Foreign Policy and Civil Society at the German Marshall Fund of the United Statesand and former Director of Radio Liberty.

Wimbush has worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, Science Applications International Corporation, and the Rand Corporation as a consultant, strategist and analyst of international security issues, and for Runzheimer International as director of communications. Earlier he directed the Society for Central Asian Studies in Oxford, England. Wimbush is also the author or editor of seven books, including several authoritative histories of Central Asia and the Caucasus.

MBN is the parent company of Alhurra Television and Radio Sawa. MBN is financed by the U.S. Government through a grant from the BBG, an independent federal agency charged with overseeing all U.S. civilian international broadcasting. As a condition of its bylaws, MBN’s board is comprised all members of the BBG including Governors Walter Isaacson, Victor Ashe, Michael Lynton, Susan McCue, Michael Meehan, Dennis Mulhaupt, Dana Perino and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Victor H. Ashe

Mr. Ashe serves on the BBG Governance Committee and is Vice Chair of the Board of Radio Free Asia.

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.

Ashe served as the United States Ambassador to Poland from June 2004 to October 2009. In 2004, he was a Fellow at Harvard University’s JFK Institute of Politics.

From 1968 until 1974, Ashe served as a Tennessee State Representative. In 1975, he was elected as State Senator and held office until 1984. Ashe served in 1967 as a staff assistant to US Sen. Howard Baker. He was executive director of the Americans Outdoors Commission, 1985-1987 chaired by Sen. Lamar Alexander (then Governor).

Five U.S. Presidents, beginning with President Ronald Reagan, have named Ashe to different federal positions. He will be the first former Ambassador and local elected official to serve on the BBG.

Ashe currently sits on the Board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the American Rivers Association, and is a former member of the AmeriCorps Board of Directors.

Ambassador Ashe earned a B.A. in History from Yale University in 1967 and graduated from the College of Law at the University of Tennessee in 1974.

Ashe serves on the BBG Governance Committee and is Corporate Board Vice Chair of Radio Free Asia.

Ashe was appointed to the board on July 2, 2010 to a term expiring on August 13, 2010. By law, any member whose term has expired may serve until a successor has been appointed and qualified.

He is married to the former Joan Plumlee and they have two children—J. Victor and Martha.

Ashe resides at 3709 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919 and welcomes comments and views on BBG issues. He can be reached by phone at 865 523-6573 or email at vhashe@aol.com.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

Prior to becoming Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton has served in the United States Senate as the junior senator from New York, a post she was elected to in 2000 and then re-elected in 2006. In the Senate, she served on the Armed Services Committee, the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, the Budget Committee and the Select Committee on Aging. She was also a Commissioner on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe.

As a former First Lady, and previously as an attorney, Mrs. Clinton was an avid advocate for human rights, democracy and civil society.

Mrs. Clinton is represented on the Board by Ambassador D. Kathleen Stephens the Acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

Michael Lynton

Mr. Lynton serves the BBG’s interim presiding governor

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.

Mr. Lynton is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Rand Corporation.

He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and is proficient in French, German and Dutch.

Lynton was named the BBG’s interim presiding governor following the departure of Chairman Walter Isaacson in February, 2012.

Lynton was appointed to the board on July 2, 2010 to a term expiring on August 13, 2012. By law, any member whose term has expired may serve until a successor has been appointed and qualified.

Susan McCue

Ms. McCue serves as Co-Chair of the BBG Communications and Outreach Committee and Vice Chair of the Board of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

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. Before that she held numerous communications positions in government and campaigns. She is currently Vice Chair of Humanity United and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

A New Jersey native, Ms. McCue is a graduate of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., with degrees in economics and journalism.

McCue serves as Co-Chair of the BBG Communications and Outreach Committee and Vice Chair of the Board of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

McCue was appointed to the board on July 2, 2010 to a term expiring on August 13, 2011. By law, any member whose term has expired may serve until a successor has been appointed and qualified.

Michael P. Meehan

Meehan serves as Co-Chair of the BBG Communications and Outreach Committee, Chair of the Board of Radio Free Asia.

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. Mr. Meehan earned a B.A. in political science from Bates College.

Meehan serves as Co-Chair of the BBG Communications and Outreach Committee and Chair of the Board of Radio Free Asia.

Meehan was appointed to the board on July 2, 2010 to a term expiring on August 13, 2010. By law, any member whose term has expired may serve until a successor has been appointed and qualified.

Dennis Mulhaupt

Mr. Mulhaupt serves as the Chair of the BBG Governance Committee. He also serves on the Strategy and Budget Committee and is the Chair of the Board of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

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.

After 15 years in various corporate roles, he turned full-time to the non-profit sector. Before founding Commonwealth Partners, he served as Executive Vice President at KCET in Los Angeles, the West Coast flagship public broadcasting and media company. Other roles in higher education administration have included positions as Vice President at Claremont McKenna College; Associate Vice President at Stanford University; and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences at the University of Southern California, where he also taught undergraduate courses in international relations.

Mr. Mulhaupt received his B.A. from the University of Southern California and an M.Phil. from Cambridge University where he also did doctoral work in history and international relations.

Mr. Mulhaupt serves as the Chair of the BBG Governance Committee. He also serves on the Strategy and Budget Committee and is the Chair of the Board of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Mulhaupt was appointed to the board on July 2, 2010 to a term expiring on August 13, 2011. By law, any member whose term has expired may serve until a successor has been appointed and qualified.

Dana Perino

Ms. Perino serves as Co-Chair of the BBG Communications and Outreach Committee

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. She is the creator of Minute Mentoring, a program helping young women entering the workforce, and a member of the ONE Campaign’s Women’s Advisory Board, Mother’s Day Every Day, Running Start, and Pets2Vets.

Ms. Perino previously served in the United States Justice Department, was Director of Communications for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and worked on Capitol Hill for Representatives Dan Schaefer (R-CO) and Scott McInnis (R-CO).

She holds a M.A. in Public Affairs Reporting from the University of Illinois – Springfield and a B.A. in Mass Communications from Colorado State University – Pueblo.

Perino serves as Co-Chair of the BBG Communications and Outreach Committee.

Perino was appointed to the board on July 2, 2010 to a term expiring on August 13, 2012. By law, any member whose term has expired may serve until a successor has been appointed and qualified.

Corporate officers for MBN

· Brian Conniff, President

· Kelley Sullivan, Treasurer

· Anne Noble, Secretary