Ingrid Deltenre took up the position of Director General of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) on 1 January 2010. The EBU is an association with 73 Member public service radio and TV broadcasters from 56 countries throughout Europe and neighbouring countries, as well as 35 Associates from the other continents. The association is more widely known as EUROVISION. The EBU has two types of activities: On behalf of its Members it acquires sports and music rights, enables content exchanges and co-productions, coordinates technical research and development, facilitates the exchanges of expertise and best practices and acts as the public voice of public broadcasting. The EBU business services range from providing host broadcasting services to providing highly reliable distribution services for prestigious news and sports live events. For this purpose the EBU operates the largest global satellite and fibre network connecting all relevant broadcasters world-wide. The EBU employs about 400 permanent staff from 44 different countries at its headquarters in Geneva and its subsidiaries around the world.
Prior to joining the EBU, Ingrid Deltenre was CEO of Schweizer Fernsehen (SF), the leading public TV broadcaster in the German-speaking region of Switzerland. During her tenure there she successfully redefined the broadcaster’s profile, realigned it with its audience, and modernized the production and distribution infrastructure and launched a forward looking internet and mobile platform. Production facilities were modernized during this time with the introduction of high definition and file-based production. All sports production was converted to high definition in time for Euro 2008. The switch from analogue distribution to digital was accomplished by the end of 2007.
From 1999 to 2004 she was CEO of Publisuisse, the commercial unit of SRG SSR and the leading marketer of television in Switzerland.
Previously Ingrid Deltenre held a variety of executive positions, including at Swisscard AECS and as managing director at CASH, which at the time was Switzerland’s leading business weekly.
Ingrid Deltenre is a Dutch and Swiss National and speaks Dutch, German, English, French and Italian.