VOA DIRECTORS
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The Voice of America's first organizational home was the U.S. Foreign Information Service, which later became the overseas branch of the Office of War Information. FIS' first director was Robert E. Sherwood; Joseph Barnes was his deputy and chief of the New York Office. |
John Houseman
February 1942 - July 1943
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Louis G. Cowan
August 1943 - August 1945
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John Ogilvie
September 1945 - January 1946
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Charles Thayer
January 1948 - October 1949
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Foy David Kohler
October 1949 - September 1952
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Alfred Morton
October 1952 - April 1953
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Leonard Erikson
July 1953 - April 1954
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John R. Poppele
May 1954 - July 1956
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Robert E. Button
July 1956 - July 1958
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Henry Loomis
July 1958 - March 1965
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John Chancellor
August 1965 - June 1967
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John Charles Daly
September 1967 - June 1968
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Kenneth R. Giddens
September 1969 - April 1977
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R. Peter Straus
July 1977 - October 1979
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Mary Bitterman
March 1980 - January 1981
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James Conkling
August 1981 - March 1982
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John Hughes
March 1982 - August 1982
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Kenneth Tomlinson
December 1982 - September 1984
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Gene Pell
June 1985 - October 1985
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Richard W. Carlson
November 1986 - September 1991
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Charles Untermeyer
September 1991 - January 1993
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Geoffrey Cowan
March 1994 - November 1996
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Evelyn S. Lieberman
March 1997 - May 1999
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Sanford J. Ungar
June 1999 - July 2001
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Robert R. Reilly
October 2001 - August 2002
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David S. Jackson
September 2002 - October 2006
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Danforth W. Austin
October 2006 – present
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