| Rüdiger
Lentz
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Rüdiger Lentz serves as the executive
director of Deutsche Welle in North America. As the representative
of Germany’s only international broadcaster in the US
he manages all journalistic, public policy, marketing and
regulatory affairs.
Prior to his job in Washington he was
Bureau Chief in Brussels for six years, responsible for DW’s
radio and TV-coverage of the creation of the Euro and the
enlargement of NATO and the EU.
Before the launch of Deutsche Welle
TV he was the editor in Chief of RIAS-TV in Berlin, a joint
US-German Radio and TV Station, which he joined in 1988. His
career as a journalist started in 1976, when he joined “Der
Spiegel”, Germany’s weekly news magazine, as a
correspondent for military and security affairs.
In 1981 he became a TV reporter, national
commentator and presenter of a weekly TV-special on world
wide affairs with ARD, Germany’s largest public TV and
Radio station. Throughout his career as a TV journalist he
has interviewed numerous international politicians and business
leaders. Among them: Chancellor Schmidt, Kohl and Schroeder,
President Bush (senior), President Koehler, President Kwasniewski,
CEO Pierer (Siemens), Piech (VW), Larry Summers (Treasury),
Bishop Tutu, Colonel Gaddafi, UN-Secretary Boutros-Ghali,
Premier Rabin and many others.
He holds a degree from Hamburg University,
where he studied political science, history and economics
during his tenure as a career officer in the Federal Armed
Forces.
He is also a frequent lecturer at Harvard
University, Georgetown University, the Foreign Service Institute
(US Department of State), UCLA and other institutions about
transatlantic relations, security policy and media related
issues.
He is a member of the “Atlantikbrücke”
– a German-American Foundation to enhance transatlantic
relations and serves on the board of GABC.
He is married to Birgitt Lentz and has
two daughters.
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