Paula Kerger

Paula Kerger is president and chief executive officer of PBS, the nation’s largest noncommercial media organization, and president of the PBS Foundation, an independent organization that raises private-sector funding. Prior to joining PBS in 2006, Kerger served for more than a decade at Educational Broadcasting Corporation, the parent company of Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21 New York, where she became executive vice president and COO. She serves on her alma mater the University of Baltimore’s Merrick School of Business Dean’s Advisory Council, is a member of the Women’s Forum, a director of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and board chair of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.