Delphine Ernotte Cunci has served as the Chief Executive Office of France Télévisions in 2015 after spending five years as the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Orange Group (formerly France Télécom).

After graduating from Ecole Centrale Paris, Delphine started her career at France Télécom (FT) as a financial analyst and then as an engineer economist at FT Research & Development.

Moreover, she is also a member of the Board of Suez Environment Group, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Ecole Centrale Supélec Paris and a member of the Centquatre cultural establishment. Ms Ernotte Cunci was Vice-President of the EBU before being elected President.

Delphine Ernotte Cunci is Knight of the Legion of Honor and Knight of the National Order of Merit.

Mykola Chernotytskyi was appointed Head of the Managing Board of the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (Suspilne) in 2021. 

After graduating from Sumy State University, Mykola worked as the Sumy City Council deputy from 2007 to 2010. From 2010 to 2013 he worked as the Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper “Sumy and locals”.

He joined the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (back then – National Television Company of Ukraine) as the Regional Director at Sumy Regional Branch in 2015. In 2014-2015 he worked at Sumy Regional State Television and Radio Company as Director General.

Mykola Chernotytskyi has been a Member of the Managing Board of the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (Suspilne) for four years, 2017-2021. Meanwhile, within the mentioned period, he was working as the Acting Head of the Managing Board of the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (Suspilne). from May to June 2019.

He received MBA degree from Kyiv School of Economics in 2021.

Tim Davie became Director-General of the BBC on 1 September 2020.  
He is the 17th Director-General of the Corporation and the BBC’s Editor-in-Chief.  He is the editorial, operational and creative leader of the BBC with responsibility for a global workforce running services across television, radio and digital.

After graduating from Cambridge University in 1990, where he read English, Tim worked at Procter & Gamble and then PepsiCo Europe, as Vice President of Marketing and Franchise, before joining the BBC in 2005 as Director of the Marketing, Communications and Audiences division.  He went on to become the BBC’s Director of Audio and Music, with overall responsibility for the BBC’s national radio output, its digital services and performing groups.

In 2013, after a period as acting BBC Director-General, Tim became the Chief Executive of BBC Studios, the BBC’s principal commercial subsidiary, responsible for creating and distributing leading British content globally.  Whilst in the role, he oversaw the merger between the BBC’s production arm and BBC Worldwide, the Corporation’s distribution company, and was responsible for an annual turnover of over £1.4bn.

Tim is a Trustee of the Tate; a former co-chair of the Creative Industries Council; and a former chair of Comic Relief.

He was appointed a CBE in 2018 for services to International Trade.

Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė has been holding the position of Director General of Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) since 2018. Under her leadership LRT started a complex reform, improving the content of LRT programmes, extending its online presence and integrating the content of all its media platforms, embarking on investigative and solution-based journalism as well as projects on countering disinformation and promoting media literacy.

Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė has a long track record of experience in journalism and media business since 1993. From 1997 to 1998 she was a freelance journalist at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; from 1996 to 1999 she was employed as a reporter and columnist at the leading business newspaper Verslo Žinios, a Lithuanian–Swedish joint venture. For seventeen years, 2000-2017, she worked as a columnist and as Editor-in-Chief at the biggest Lithuanian news digital platform DELFI. There she was responsible for strategy, editorial policy and the conception and launch of new projects.

Ms Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė graduated with a degree in journalism and a Master’s Degree in International Communication at Vilnius University. She also regularly contributes to professional studies as a teacher of journalism.

Gilles Marchand (born 2 March 1962) was named Director General of SRG SSR in November 2016. He took up his role as head of the Corporation in 2017. Prior to that he was Director of TSR (Télévision Suisse Romande), which became RTS (Radiotélévision Suisse) in 2010 following the merger of radio and television into a single broadcasting entity.

Gilles Marchand holds a master’s degree in sociology from the University of Geneva, and worked on the newspaper la Tribune de Genève between 1988 and 1990. He subsequently joined the Ringier media group in French-speaking Switzerland, where he headed up the research, marketing and communications department before taking over as director of the group in 1998.

In parallel, he also has seats on various corporate and institution boards: TV5 Monde (board member), European Broadcasting Union (EBU – member of the Executive Board and Personnel Committee), University of Geneva (member of the strategy committee) and SwissMediaForum (board member).

Milen Mitev took up his current role as Director General of the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) in November 2021. Prior to that, he had served as an Administrative Director of BNR, beginning from April 2020, followed by a period on the position of ad-interim Director General, just before his formal appointment as a Director General.

He began his professional career at BNR in 2010 as a legal adviser, before taking on progressively more responsibilities, including the position of Director of the Legal and Human Resources Department. He left this position at BNR in 2019 to briefly take on the role of Secretary General of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA), before coming back to BNR in April 2020.

Milen Mitev has а very extensive experience in working with the EBU, having served eight years in total as a member of the EBU Legal & Policy Committee. Since the spring of 2023, he is also a member of the Radio Committee.      

Nicolau Santos has been President of RTP Portugal since 1 June 2021.

Santos, 68, is a well-known TV, radio and press journalist. He was previously President of the National Press Agency Lusa for three years.

He has been the founder and Director of many different economic newspapers like Semanário Económico and Diário Económico and worked as Economics Editor and Deputy Director of the most prestigious Portuguese newspaper Expresso.

Santos is a published poet and has received many prizes including being awarded the title of Officer of the National Order of Prince Henry the Navigator by the Portuguese President.

Katja Wildermuth is Director-General of Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Having previously served as Program Director of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) and Head of Culture at Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Katja ascribes great importance to reaching the entire population with excellent programming and in these roles, she was responsible for numerous TV formats that were taken up by MDR, NDR, Das Erste and ARTE.

Katja came to journalism following a university career as a lecturer in ancient history at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. In 1994 she started as an editor at MDR and in 2004 became head of the MDR editorial team responsible for the content themes of history and society. There she took the editorial lead on a number of large cross-media projects and award-winning documentaries such as Under The Sun, Hitler's Children, Rabbits à la Berlin, Night Will Fall and Collective – Corruption Kills. During this time, Katja Wildermuth was also a member of the Board of the EBU Documentary Experts Group.