New Non-Board D/I Committee Member Ratified

The NPR board election concluded on July 14, 2003, and voters ratified the election of Dennis Hamilton to the Non-Board D/I Committee Member seat. Mr. Hamilton is Vice President of Consulting for Transformations Consulting Group.

Dennis' twenty-five year career at Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) ran the gamut from reporter/producer, to Senior Vice President/Principal Executive Officer. Over the course of those years, he led teams in the building of over twenty radio stations in both rural and urban markets, designed and produced local and national programs and series, and led public radio policy development as a member of the National Public Radio Board of Directors. His broadcasting expertise ranges from technical to strategic and from grass roots, community development to state and federal lobbying and governance.

Since leaving MPR in early 1999, Dennis has undertaken considerable study in the areas of leadership and strategy. After earning a Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship, Dennis attended Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government where he earned a Masters of Public Administration degree in June 2000.

Dennis brings a background of entrepreneurial zeal to his work with public broadcasting. He is a believer in the idea that high quality public service media can only become reality if business methods and disciplines are mated with the values and missions that drive our hopes and dreams for a civil society. He advocates strategic planning, the development of reasonable and useful measures, and well defined and focused tactical planning that reinforces strategy and delivers results.