Gary Thatcher, a veteran journalist and editor, has been the Associate Director of Program Support for the International Broadcasting Bureau since June 2000.

In that job, he oversees program placement (affiliates), marketing, public affairs, development, and international media training, research and program quality review for the agency.

In addition, he’s handled a number of major assignments for the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), including creation and launch of Radio Sawa, the Board’s popular Arabic-language service.

From late 2003 until early 2004, Mr. Thatcher served in Baghdad as Director of Strategic Communications for the Coalition Provisional Authority, serving on the senior staff of Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III.

Prior to joining the US Government, Mr. Thatcher was first Foreign Editor, then National Editor, of the Chicago Tribune, where he supervised the Tribune’s worldwide and US news bureaus. He was also the National Editor of The Christian Science Monitor.

Mr. Thatcher served as an editor or correspondent in Boston, Atlanta, Johannesburg, Washington, Moscow and Munich.

He was a news executive, deputy director and acting director of Radio Free Europe, which broadcasts to northern, central and Eastern Europe under the overall supervision of the BBG.

He lives in Northern Virginia, is married and has three children.

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