Dagmar Engel (born 1960) has been Editor-in-Chief of for Global Content since its creation in January 2012. She was previously Editor-in-Chief for the German television service.  

Ansgar Burghof (born 1948) has been the Head of General Management at Deutsche Welle since 2008. 

Johannes Hoffmann (born 1963) has been Head of Corporate Communications and Deutsche Welle Spokesperson since 2003. 

Klaus Bergmann (58) is the head of International Relations at Deutsche Welle.  

Peter Niepalla (born 1959) has been Legal Advisor at Deutsche Welle since 2003. 

Andreas Hämmerling (born 1958) has been Head of Auditing since 2003, and since 2006 also the contact for corruption prevention issues. 

Christian Gramsch became Director of Regionalized Content at Deutsche Welle in January 2012. Previously he had been responsible for DW’s radio and online services as Director of Programs.  

Christoph Lanz has been Director of Global Content at Deutsche Welle since January 2012. Previously he was in charge of DW's German, English, Spanish and Arabic programming as Director of Television. 

Guido Baumhauer (*1967) has been Deutsche Welle’s Director of Strategy, Marketing and Distribution since 2006. 

Gerda Meuer has been Director of DW Akademie since April 2008. Previously she had been in charge of DW's consulting and training services for journalists in developing countries since 2004.