The Director General manages the Permanent Services with the help of the Executive Committee, who report to him, each member working in their specific fields of competence.

He defines the overall direction of the activities of the Permanent Services and supervises all activities of the Permanent Services and assumes ultimate responsibility for them before the Executive Board of Members.

Jean Réveillon took up the position of EBU Secretary General on 1 February 2004. Following certain changes to the statutes, unanimously approved by an extraordinary general assembly at the 58th General Assembly of the EBU in Istanbul (July 5-6 2007) Jean Réveillon became EBU Director General, effective 5 July 2007. 

Jean Réveillon

Prior to joining the EBU in 2004, Jean Réveillon was Deputy Director-General and Director of broadcasting at France 3 as of December 1999.

From 1992 to 1998, Jean Réveillon was Director of sport at France 2 and France 3. From 1990 to 1992, he was Director of France 3 Nord/Pas-de-Calais/Picardie and from 1984 to 1990 Director of development at La Voix du Nord. From 1967 to 1984, Jean Réveillon worked as a sports journalist, deputy head and then head of sports services at La Voix du Nord (regional daily) and editor-in-chief of La Voix des Sports.

He is the author of two books: "Le Dakar, une aventure, un rêve" (1984 - Presse de la Cité) and "Le désert au coeur" (1989 - Olivier Orban). Jean Réveillon is a knight of the Légion d'Honneur (2005) and of the Ordre National du Mérite, winner of the Prix Henri Desgranges awarded by the Académie des Sports (1998), holder of the Medal of Honour of the Senate (1997) and the Trophée Lumière du Communiquant Nord/Pas-de-Calais (1999).