Barbara Brady Acting Chief of Staff

William A. Marsh Senior Advisor

Barbara Brady was named Acting Chief of Staff in January 2008.  Prior to that, she served as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau since June 2007.  She came from the Office of Engineering where she was Program Coordinator, acting as liaison with VOA and other broadcasters, and later became Director of the Spectrum Management Division.  In Engineering, she oversaw the scheduling and monitoring of all BBG medium wave and shortwave transmissions and was responsible for customer support with VOA and other BBG broadcasters. Barbara began her federal career in 1990 as a Presidential Management Intern with the former-USIA's Educational and Cultural Exchange Bureau.  Since joining broadcasting in 1992, Barbara has served in many capacities including Latin American Marketing Officer, VOA Special Assistant to Director of Programs and Acting Chief of Staff, and as a Branch Chief in the Chief Financial Officer's office.  She has fifteen years of experience within the organization handling technical, programmatic and resource management responsibilities.  She holds an undergraduate degree in International Relations and a Master's Degree in Public Administration and Public Policy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Will Marsh, Senior Advisor to the VOA Director since 2001, serves as advisor on VOA policy and management matters and coordinates a variety of activities on behalf of the Director. He works closely with the Executive Editor, the Chief of Staff, Associate Directors, and with senior VOA managers and managers in other broadcast entities involved in U.S. international broadcasting. He makes and develops recommendations for the Director on programming and administrative issues. Will has been involved in international broadcasting for more than two decades, having begun with VOA in 1984 as an intern in News and English Broadcasting. He subsequently wrote and produced radio documentaries and background reports and covered news and feature events in Washington and elsewhere in the United States. He also served as a Program Review Analyst, and in 1993, because he is bilingual in English-German, was appointed Acting Chief and Program Manager of the German Service. He later became Acting Chief of VOA’s Horn of Africa Service and, from 1997 to 2001, was Chief of the Arabic Branch.