BBG Names First Director Of Internet Freedom Program Office

The Broadcasting Board of Governors named engineer and attorney Dr. Nnake Nweke as the first-ever Director of its newly created Office of Internet Freedom. As Director of the new Office of Internet Freedom, Dr. Nweke will serve as the principal advisor to the BBG Board, the CEO, and BBG’s five networks – the Voice of America, Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks – on technological and innovative efforts to circumvent Internet censorship around the globe. In this role, Dr. Nweke will lead the development of the BBG’s strategies on combating Internet censorship and will study its impact on BBG programming.

Dr. Nweke’s accomplished career includes more than 15 years of experience in information and communications technology, cybersecurity, Internet policy, engineering systems and technology policy. Most recently, he served as a branch chief in the Office of Engineering and Technology at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Earlier, he worked as a senior engineer in the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC’s Cybersecurity and Communications Reliability Division, as well as a senior staff member of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, a Technical Specialist/Patent Agent for a Washington (DC) law firm, and a research engineer at the National Security Agency.