David Ensor (journalist)

David Ensor.

David Ensor has been an Executive Vice President of the Atlantic Council, a Washington, D.C. think tank on international issues since February, 2016. In the Fall Term of 2015, he was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, in Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

2011-15, Ensor served as the 28th director of the Voice of America. During his four years leading VOA, its audience increased almost 40 percent. He co-founded a daily Russian language television show "Current Time" responding to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Crimea, developed a partnership with the BBC fighting Ebola in Africa; and helped defend VOA against political attempts to weaken its journalistic independence. He helped VOA reach over 187 million globally per week in 45 languages, on television, radio, internet, social media.

In 2010-11 he served as Director for Communications and Public Diplomacy of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. He led American efforts to help Afghans build a modern mobile telephone, social media, radio and television infrastructure, and a broad range of press and cultural activities designed to help Afghanistan recover from 30 years of war. He was one of the highest ranking representatives of President Obama's 'civilian surge' to serve in Afghanistan.

From 2006-9, Ensor was the spokesman[1] and Executive Vice President for Communications at Mercuria Energy Group.[2] Prior to joining Mercuria Energy Group he worked for 31 years as a journalist for National Public Radio, ABC News, and CNN.[3]

Education

Ensor earned a bachelor's degree with honors in European history from the University of California, Berkeley.[3]

Career as a journalist

From 1975-1980, Ensor was a reporter in Washington, D.C. for National Public Radio. He joined ABC News as White House correspondent in 1980, reporting on the presidency of Jimmy Carter. During his career at ABC News Ensor also served as a diplomatic correspondent for ABC News based at the U.S. State Department, and reported from Warsaw, Rome and Moscow. In August 1999, Ensor joined CNN, where he worked as national security correspondent based in Washington, D.C, reporting on the U.S. intelligence community and on national security issues such as international terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the national missile defense debate.[3] He left CNN in 2006.[4]

Organizations

Ensor is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[3][5]

Publications

"In Volatile Europe Danger and Opportunity Abound", with Fred Kempe, Handelsblatt.com, June 2, 2016, "How Washington Can Win the Information War", Foreign Policy, December 14, 2015 "No, Governor Kasich, Voice of America's Not About 'Judeo-Christian Values', Politico, November 2015 "Exporting the First Amendment" Shorenstein Center paper, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, December 14, 2015


References

  1. ↑ Mercuria Energy Partners Nigeria On Oil Sector Development, Feb 17 2009. This article appears on Mercuria.com but is attributed to "Daily Independent/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX"
  2. ↑ New PKN Orlen--Mercuria term contract, David Ensor, Vice President for Communications, Mercuria Energy Group, Dec 1 2009. Accessed Apr 23 2010
  3. 1 2 3 4 Polonia Global Fund, "About David Ensor", Person of the Month, August 2004
  4. ↑ . David Ensor Resigns From CNN; He's Taking A "Non-Television Job In Europe"
  5. ↑ CFR 2009 Annual Report, p. 32

External links

http://www.voanews.com http://www.atlanticcouncil.org http://www.shorensteincenter.org


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