As President and Chief Operating Officer of Discovery Communications, Inc. (DCI), Judith McHale is responsible for overall strategic direction, business development and operations of all DCI resources and properties in the United States and around the world. Under her leadership, DCI has grown from its core property, the Discovery Channel, to become the leading global real work media company.

Ms. McHale has led DCI’s extensive efforts to fulfill its social responsibilities. She created the Discovery Channel Global Education Fund, which provides advanced satellite technology to deliver free educational programming to over 40,000 students at 43 schools and community centers throughout rural Africa and Latin America. In 1999, following the tragic shootings in Littleton, Colorado, she committed DCI to provide media literacy training to every public school in Maryland.