Cilla Benkö

Cilla Benkö was appointed Director General of Swedish Radio October 1, 2012. Since 2009 she held the position of Deputy Director General of Swedish Radio.

Cilla Benkö has been working for Swedish Radio for more than 20 years and during this period she has had several managerial positions. She started her work at the sports department and from there she went on to the news department, as a business journalist. Her journalistic career has not only involved assignments within public broadcasting. She has also worked as a freelance in New York for the Swedish commercial television and was Head of the News Department “Aktuellt”, Swedish Television.

In 1986, Ms Benkö graduated with a degree in Journalism and Media at Stockholm University. She has since added more studies in Economy, at Stockholm School of Economics, and in Communication and Marketing at The New York University. She has also concluded the course High Performance Leadership at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland