Project Manager – Digital Radio Mondiale Consortium
Charlotte Cabrero is a media professional with 17 years’ experience of global sales, business development and building strategic partnerships with international public and private broadcasters as well as multimedia platforms. She has managed the worldwide distribution of thousands of hours of award-winning TV and Radio content for the BBC, Parthenon Entertainment, the Extreme Sports Channel and independent production companies, successfully negotiating complex agreements at the highest level in developed and emerging markets.
Charlotte joined the BBC nine years ago and has recently been in charge of distributing Ebola response programmes to Liberia and Guinea for BBC Media Action. “Kick Ebola From Liberia” and “Mr Plan-Plan” won a George Foster Peabody award for public services together with other BBC World Service programmes produced in response to the Ebola outbreak and delivered to the worst affected countries in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
Since 2011, Charlotte has also been actively involved in the development and implementation of international projects and events, as well as marketing and social media activities for the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Consortium. The DRM Consortium is a not-for-profit organisation promoting DRM, the global, green, spectrum efficient, cost savings and all frequencies digital radio standard, to international broadcasters, regulators, research and telecommunications organisations, governments, manufacturers and all those interested or involved in the radio digitisation of their country.
Charlotte has graduated from the Sorbonne University and holds an International Advertising Association Diploma from the Ecole Supérieure de Publicité in Paris. She is trilingual English, French, Spanish and also speaks Italian.