Veronique Rodman, a public relations specialist and former
television producer, has been appointed to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the
bipartisan, nine-member board which supervises all U.S. nonmilitary international broadcasting.
President Bush nominated Rodman to the BBG on October 24, 2003, and gave her a recess appointment
on Dec. 26, 2003.
“Veronique Rodman brings to the BBG an understanding of international affairs and broadcasting,”
said Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the BBG’s chairman.
Rodman is director of public affairs at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research, a Washington-based think tank. Before joining AEI in 1999, Rodman worked for many years in
broadcasting. From 1982-1995, she served as a producer of ABC-TV’s “This Week With David Brinkley.”
As a television news consultant, she later helped launch “Fox News Sunday.”
Rodman also worked as vice president for the Cosmetic, Toiletries and Fragrance Association
Foundation, and as program coordinator for the SAIS-Novartis Prize for Excellence in International
Journalism, a journalism award given annually at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International
Studies. Previously, she worked for former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and for CSIS’s
Congressional Leadership Group on International Communication. Early in her career, she was
assistant festival director for “The World of Islam,” in London.
Born in Cairo, Rodman received a B.A. from Rutgers University and an M.S from Georgetown
University. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. She is married to Peter W. Rodman. They have two
children. Rodman replaces Robert M. Ledbetter, Jr., of Tupelo, Miss., whose term expired.
The BBG is an independent federal agency which supervises all U.S. government-supported
non-military international broadcasting, including the Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL); Radio Free Asia (RFA); Radio and TV Mart
