Libby Liu was named president of Radio Free Asia in September 2005 by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), following the retirement of RFA’s founding president Richard Richter. As president, Ms. Liu provides strategic and operational direction to meet RFA’s mission of providing balanced, objective news to listeners in Asian countries where such news is not available. In addition to directing RFA’s editorial and administrative policies and procedures, she coordinates issues in these areas with the BBG, the International Broadcasting Bureau, and other associated entities. As president, Ms. Liu’s responsibilities also include insuring the highest quality administrative and technical support to RFA’s editorial staff.  In this capacity, she seeks to facilitate effective, timely communication and broad-based collaboration among all RFA divisions and bureaus. Ms. Liu served previously as RFA’s vice president for administration and finance from 2003-05.

Prior to joining RFA, Ms. Liu served as director of administration and strategic planning at the Baltimore-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where she played a pivotal role in implementing the NAACP’s first Five-Year Strategic Plan Goals and Objectives. She served earlier as director of human resources with San Jose, California-based high-tech firm Spyrus Inc. and as assistant district attorney in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office, where she prosecuted crimes ranging from narcotics trafficking to armed robbery to domestic violence. Her earlier positions in private practice - at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco and at Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn in New York - focused on labor and employment law.  Ms. Liu previously worked from 1986-89 as a senior consultant at Coopers & Lybrand, now Price Waterhouse Coopers, in Washington, DC.

Ms. Liu holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California-Berkeley, an MBA from the Wharton School, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. A California native, Ms. Liu is the daughter of Chinese immigrants.