State Department’s Richard Stengel Tapped for Chairman of Broadcasting Board of Governors

President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Richard Stengel to be Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Stengel is Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, a position he has held since 2014.

Stengel served as Managing Editor of TIME from 2006 to 2013 and President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia from 2004 to 2006. Mr. Stengel was the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University in 1999. From 1992 to 1994, he collaborated with Nelson Mandela on his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. Mr. Stengel has written for many publications and is the author of several books. He began his career at TIME in 1981 as a writer and correspondent. Mr. Stengel received a B.A. from Princeton University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.