Jeffrey Gedmin

Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin assumed office as the Acting President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in July 2023. He is also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of American Purpose, a magazine and media venture. He is the former President/CEO of the London-based Legatum Institute. Gedmin previously served for four years as President/CEO of RFE/RL, prior to which he served as President/CEO of the Aspen Institute in Berlin. Previously, he was Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and Executive Director of the New Atlantic Initiative. Gedmin is the author/editor of several books on Germany and European security. He also served as co-executive producer for two major PBS documentaries: “The Germans, Portrait of a New Nation” (1995) and “Spain’s 9/11 and the Challenge of Radical Islam in Europe” (2007). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on several advisory boards, including the Institute for State Effectiveness, the Justice for Journalists Foundation, the Tocqueville Conversations, and the Institute for Current World Affairs. Together with former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic Norm Eisen, Gedmin is co-chair of the Transatlantic Democracy Working Group, hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.