CED Staff Members

Joan Siefert Rose
President

In August of 2008, Joan Siefert Rose took over as president of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development.  Prior to this position, Rose was the general manager of North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC; a position she held since 2001.

As general manager Rose oversaw a strategic planning process that led the station to change its format later that year to news and information. Since then, the station’s audience has grown and the staff and annual budget have doubled in size. A successful capital campaign completed in 2007 provided new broadcast studios at the American Tobacco Historic District in Durham, the creation of the nationally distributed program The Story with Dick Gordon, and the establishment of the “Innovations Desk” for the public radio program Marketplace. Other significant programming achievements include the hiring of former NPR newscaster Frank Stasio to host the midday interview program The State of Things, and a news department that was honored with the DuPont-Columbia Journalism award, the broadcasting equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.

Rose spent 15 years in commercial radio in North Carolina and Michigan earlier in her career. She also worked in health care planning and marketing prior to joining public radio in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1997. She has an undergraduate degree from Middlebury College in Vermont and a master’s degree in public health from the University of Michigan. She lives with her husband, Jim, and their two sons in Chapel Hill.