Liliana Vițu was appointed the Chair of the Audiovisual Council, Moldova’s regulatory body for TV and Radio, in December 2021 for a six-year mandate. Ms. Vițu started her career in 1999 as a BBC World Service correspondent in Moldova. In 2009, she was appointed the director of the News and Debates Department at the public TV channel “Moldova 1” to promote long overdue reforms at the public broadcaster. As Prime-minister Spokesperson from 2013 to 2015 she ran nationwide public communication campaigns on the EU-Moldova Association Agreement and visa free regime. Her experience includes consulting in media development for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, UNDP Uzbekistan, OSCE Tajikistan and working as a Project Director for Internews in Kyrgyzstan. In 2011 she was the first journalist to be nominated by the US Embassy for the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists, USA. In October 2023 Russia banned her from entering the country for fighting its propaganda and disinformation in her role at the Audiovisual Council.