12 Facts About Ingrid Deltenre

Ingrid Deltenre was the Secretary General of the Swiss Media Association from 1989 to 1991 and is a member of the board of various companies.

On 25 August 1960, Deltenre was born a Dutch national in Wettingen in the Swiss canton of Aargau to Dutch parents.

Between 1982 and 1989 Ingrid Deltenre studied at the University of Zurich for a master's degree in education, journalism and biological anthropology.

In 1989 Ingrid Deltenre began her working career as the Secretary General of the Swiss Media Association and was Project Manager at the Media Research Department responsible for audience research and electronic media.

Ingrid Deltenre was chief marketing officer and member of the executive committee at Swisscard between 1998 and 1999, and worked at multimedia marketer publisuisse as its director from 1999 to 2004.

On 1 January 2004, Ingrid Deltenre was elected director of the German-speaking broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen, succeeding Peter Schellenberg.

Ingrid Deltenre was the first woman to be appointed head of Swiss German television, and the appointment was considered controversial as critics felt she had too little journalistic experience.

In 2015, Ingrid Deltenre received a second term as EBU's director-general that would last from January 2016 to January 2019.

In September 2017 Ingrid Deltenre left the EBU to focus on her responsibilities on various boards, providing them her knowledge of digitisation, environmental and social governance, human resources, and marketing.

Ingrid Deltenre was president of the board of directors of SF's production company Technology and production center Switzerland from April 2005 to 18 November 2010.

Ingrid Deltenre was Swiss Board Member of the Year 2019.

Ingrid Deltenre's partner is the public relations consultant Sacha Wigdorovits.