Andrew Sussman

Andrew Sussman is formerly the executive producer of PRI's The World. He did print in Moscow, radio in Paris, and now calls Boston home.

Andrew Sussman, formerly as executive producer, oversaw the wide-ranging operation that is PRI's The World until November, 2018. Part of the original team that launched the show, Sussman joined as a reporter and producer in 1995, and has worked pretty much every position since.

Before The World, Sussman oversaw a joint-venture newspaper collaboration with Komsomolskaya Pravda in Russia, where he also worked as an editor at The Moscow Times.  He's also worked as a reporter with Radio France International in Paris.  Sussman was a 2001 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

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The World’s first executive producer Neil Curry, left, at a planning meeting before the show’s launch.  With him are Traci Tong, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, Marco Werman, Philip Martin and Boris Maksimov.

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