Newly elected Executive Board Members Peter Salmon (BBC), on the left,
and Leopoldo González-Echenique (RTVE)

The EBU General Assembly, the Union’s highest decision-making body, has named top-flight executives from the BBC and RTVE to fill two spots on the EBU’s Executive Board for the remainder of the current term, which ends on 31 December 2014.

Peter Salmon, Director of BBC North, and Leopoldo González-Echenique, the incumbent president of Spain’s RTVE, will fill spots formerly held by the BBC’s Roger Mosey, who left in September, and Themis Themistocleous, Director General of Cypriot broadcaster CyBC, who will retire at the end of the year.

Peter Salmon is a member of the BBC Management Board, overseeing 2,300 staff. A former journalist, he served as BBC Director of Sport, BBC Chief Creative Officer of BBC Vision Productions before being appointed Director of BBC North in 2008, with responsibility for the BBC’s second largest UK production centre.

A lawyer by training, Mr Gonzàlez-Echenique has held many senior public sector posts, including in the Spanish Interior Ministry and Treasury, as well as leading roles at Barclays Bank, Spain, and NH Group. He became President of RTVE in June 2012.

The vote took place at the EBU’s Geneva headquarters this morning, during the closing day of the 71^st EBU General Assembly.

Consequently, from January 2014 the nine EBU Executive Board members, excluding the EBU President and Vice-President, will be:

• Ms Cilla Benkö (SR/Sweden)
• Mr Petr Fedorov (RTR/Russia)
• Mr Faiçal Laraïchi (SNRT/Morocco)
• Mr Leopoldo González-Echenique (RTVE/Spain)
• Mr Rémy Pflimin (FT/France)
• Mr Peter Salmon (BBC/UK)
• Mr Andrzej Siezieniewski (PR/Poland)
• Mr Ulrich Wilhelm (BR/ARD/Germany)
• Mr Alexander Wrabetz (ORF/Austria)