Kevin Klose

Kevin KLOSE is president and chief executive officer of National Public Radio (NPR), America’s premier non-profit news and cultural radio programming service, with 600 stations and a weekly audience of almost 15 million listeners nationwide. A former editor and foreign correspondent with The Washington Post, Mr. Klose is an award-winning author and international broadcasting executive. Prior to joining NPR, he served as director of US International Broadcasting (1997 to1998); and was president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) from 1994 to 1997. Mr. Klose first joined RFE/RL in 1992 as director of Radio Liberty, broadcasting to the former Soviet Union in its national languages. Prior to RFE/RL, he was an editor and reporter at The Washington Post for twenty-five years. His various positions at the newspaper included city editor, Moscow bureau chief, Midwest correspondent, and deputy national editor. A former Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, he serves on the Board of The Eurasia Foundation in Washington. He is the author of Russia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society, winner of the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award; and co-author of four other books. Mr. Klose received a B.A., cum laude, from Harvard University.