Jeffrey Gedmin

Jeffrey Gedmin
Born	Washington, D.C.
Citizenship	United States
Education	Georgetown University (Ph.D.), American University (M.A., B.A.)
Employer	Institute for Strategic Dialogue

Jeffrey Gedmin (born 1958) is a Senior Fellow, Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow, Institute for Strategic Dialogue. He was President and CEO of the Legatum Institute in London from 2011 to 2014 and the former President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from 2007 to 2011.

Gedmin was born in Washington, DC and raised in Northern Virginia. He was married on May 22, 1993 to Jeana Williams. They have a daughter, born November 22, 2005.

Before taking the helm at RFE/RL, Gedmin served for nearly six years as Director of the Aspen Institute in Berlin, a non-profit, non-partisan organization whose mission is "to foster 'enlightened' leadership and open-minded dialogue." From 1996 to 2001, Gedmin was a resident scholar and Executive Director of the American Enterprise Institute’s New Atlantic Initiative, a coalition of international institutes, politicians, leading journalists, and business executives seeking to revitalize and expand the Atlantic community of democracies. Leading supporters and participants included Václav Havel, Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, and U.S. Senators Jesse Helms and Joseph Biden.

Gedmin is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the board of the Council for a Community of Democracies (Washington, D.C.) and the Program of Atlantic Security Studies (Prague, Czech Republic). In addition, he has taught at Georgetown University and Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C.

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