NPR names two new board members

NPR welcomes the election of Milena Alberti-Perez and Margaret Low to the NPR Board of Administrators.

Milena Alberti-Perez was elected by the Board by unanimous written consent on April 17, 2023 to function an NPR Public Director for a time period expiring in November 2025. She was seated on Could third.

Margaret Low, CEO of WBUR Boston was elected by the Board at its final quarterly assembly on April 12, 2023 to function a Member Director for a time period expiring in November 2025. She was additionally seated on Could third.

Milena Alberti-Perez is a seasoned monetary, media and know-how government with over 20 years of expertise in guide publishing and digital firms. She has led and mentored groups of greater than 200 folks throughout the complete spectrum of economic evaluation and reporting, together with the most important merger in guide publishing historical past, and the combination of these firms.

Ms. Alberti-Perez spent most of her profession at Penguin Random Home and at the moment serves on 2 non-profit boards and three company boards. Ms. Alberti-Perez was most lately the Chief Monetary Officer of Getty Photos, Inc. (NYSE: GETY), the world’s main visible content material firm, the place she participated in over 60 investor displays to take the corporate public.

Ms. Alberti-Perez has in depth expertise in company and non-profit boards. She is an unbiased director at Digimarc Company (Nasdaq: DMRC), the place she serves because the Chair of its Audit Committee and is a member of its Compensation Committee. She serves on two non-public firm boards in audiobook publishing and digital library distribution, RBmedia and Overdrive, each owned by KKR. She additionally sits on two non-profit boards, Jumpstart and the Wild Fowl Fund.

Her tutorial background features a Bachelor of Arts diploma cum laude from The College of Pennsylvania, with Distinction in Economics and minors in Math and Latin American Research. She acquired her Masters diploma in Enterprise Administration, with Distinction, from the Harvard Enterprise College.

Margaret Low is the chief government officer of WBUR in Boston.

Earlier than becoming a member of WBUR in January 2020, Low was president of AtlanticLIVE, The Atlantic’s occasions division, which throughout her tenure produced greater than 100 conferences a yr throughout the nation.

Previous to The Atlantic, Low loved a storied profession at NPR, spanning a long time. She first walked by means of the doorways as an in a single day manufacturing assistant on Morning Version and rose by means of the ranks to develop into senior vp for information — NPR’s prime editorial job.

Throughout her tenure, NPR earned among the most prestigious honors in journalism, together with a number of Peabody Awards, duPont-Columbia Awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Low serves on the board of the Better Boston Chamber of Commerce. She is vice chair of the board of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a board member of Wallace Home Heart for Journalists on the College of Michigan, house to the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowships. In 2017, she was the graduation speaker for the College of Communications at her alma mater, the College of Michigan, the place she earned a Bachelor’s Diploma in English Language and Literature. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.