Thomas G. Ehr

Thomas G. Ehr is the Chief Executive/Executive Director of the MTV Europe Foundation, the independent charitable foundation of MTV Networks Europe, which he conceived and launched with senior MTV management in 2003. Based in London, Tom oversees all of the Foundation's activities designed to educate young Europeans (chiefly via MTV's European broadcast network) regarding the critical social issues facing them and their peers, and inspire them to action.

Tom is the Executive Producer of MTV EXIT, MTV's multiplatform European campaign to End Exploitation and Trafficking. He also represents MTV Networks Europe in various corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, including the Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights, chaired by former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson.

Prior to joining MTV, Tom headed multimilliondollar economic and legal transition projects for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Serbia and Kazakhstan, under contracts held by international management consultants Booz Allen Hamilton and IBM Business Consulting Services. From 19992000, Tom served as President and Executive Director of international children's assistance organization War Child USA, where amongst other accomplishments he conceptualized, secured, and oversaw implementation of $1 million donation from Luciano Pavarotti to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to assist Kosovar refugees.

Before War Child, Tom served for a decade as attorney and Senior Counsel at the United States Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C., where he acted as chief legal adviser on complex international negotiations including the WTO Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft and the Agreement Between the United States and the Russian Federation Concerning the Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted from Nuclear Weapons. He also served on United States delegation for the Business Development Committee of the United StatesSouth Africa Binational Commission (chaired by then Vice President Gore and Deputy President Mbeki).

Tom also volunteered as an Elections Supervisor in the 1996 elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and as an Elections Observer in the historic postapartheid 1994 South African elections. He gained his law degree from the University of Georgia in 1988, and his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1984