Since January 1, 2014, Dr. Alexander Kudascheff has been editor-in-chief of Deutsche Welle (DW). Kudascheff, who headed the Berlin studio, is in charge of DW's television, radio and online content.. On November 1, 2013, DW merged its two programming departments in Bonn and Berlin into one, which is now managed by a single director of. programming.. Since 2007, Kudascheff has been in charge of DW's Berlin studio and at the same time acted as a deputy editor-in-chief. Born in Buenos Aires to a Russian father and a German mother in 1951, Kudascheff studied philosophy, history, politics and Islamic studies in Munich, Hamburg and Cologne. After completing a journalistic traineeship, he initially worked in the Middle East department at Deutsche Welle. He later was in charge of reporting on domestic policy, then became chief reporter and finally editor-in-chief of the German-language radio programming before being appointed as head of DW's studio in Brussels in 1998.
