David Ensor Biography
David Burnham Ensor is a communications executive with expertise in government, business, and non-profit organizations. He has been a television and radio journalist for over 30 years the non-profit sector.
David Ensor Age
He was born David Burnham Ensor in the United States of America.
David Ensor Education
Ensor holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in European history from the University of California, Berkeley.[3]He graduated from Phillips Academy Andover in 1969.
David Ensor Family- Parents
Ensor is the son of Andrew F. Ensor, a Mideast oil expert, and the grandson of Sir Robert Ensor, a historian who founded the Fabian Society and the Labour Party (UK).
David Ensor Career
Ensor was the founding Director of the George Washington University Project for Media and National Security, a non-profit organization that brings reporters, military commanders, and national security officials together for face-to-face discussions to promote fact-based journalism. The Project includes the Defense Writers Group, a forty-year-old Washington, D.C. institution. He served as Executive Vice President of the Atlantic Council, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank focused on international affairs, from 2016 to 2017. He was a Shorenstein Center Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government during the Fall Term 2015. Ensor served as the Voice of America’s 28th director from 2011 to 2015. During his four years as director of VOA, the organization’s audience grew by over 40%.
He co-founded the daily Russian-language television show “Current Time” in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Crimea, formed a cooperation with the BBC to combat Ebola in Africa, and helped defend VOA against political attempts to undermine its journalistic independence. He helped VOA reach over 187 million people worldwide each week in 45 languages via television, radio, the internet, and social media.
In 2010-2011, he was the Director of Communications and Public Diplomacy at the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. He oversaw American efforts to assist Afghans in the development of contemporary mobile telephone, social media, radio and television infrastructure, as well as a wide range of press and cultural initiatives aimed at aiding Afghanistan’s recovery from 30 years of conflict. He was among the highest-ranking members of President Obama’s ‘civilian surge’ to serve in Afghanistan. From 2006 to 2009, Ensor served as Mercuria Energy Group’s spokesperson and Executive Vice President of Communications. Before joining Mercuria Energy Group, he spent 31 years as a journalist for National Public Radio, ABC News, and CNN.
Ensor worked as a correspondent for National Public Radio in Washington, DC, from 1975 until 1980. He joined ABC News as a White House correspondent in 1980, covering Jimmy Carter’s presidency. During his time at ABC News, Ensor worked as a diplomatic correspondent at the US State Department, reporting from Warsaw, Rome, and Moscow. Ensor joined CNN in August 1999 as a national security correspondent based in Washington, D.C., where he reported on the US intelligence community as well as national security issues such as international terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and the debate over national missile defense. For his 2004 CNN documentary “Warsaw Rising” about the 1944 Polish struggle against the Nazis,
David Ensor Net Worth
David has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.
