Peter Limbourg has been elected the new Director General of German broadcaster and EBU Member Deutsche Welle (DW).

Mr Limbourg, who is currently Senior Vice President of News and Political Information at ProSiebenSat.1 TV Germany, succeeds Erik Betterman, who has held the position since 2001.

In 1996 he became the Head of the ProSieben studio in Bonn, and in 1999 was appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of N24 and Head of the Political Department at ProSieben, a position which he also took on at SAT.1 in 2001.

In 2004/5 and 2008/9 Limbourg was the CEO of Pool TV, a joint venture of private television stations in Berlin. From 2008 to 2010 he was the Editor-in-Chief responsible for N24's programming. He has been anchor of SAT.1 news since 2008 and Senior Vice President of ProSiebenSat.1 TV since 2010.