Ernst Konstantin

Ernst Konstantin Date of Birth

6 February 1961

Ernst Konstantin Citizenship

Russia

Ernst Konstantin Professional field/official position

CEO of Channel One (1999 – to date)

Ernst Konstantin biography

ERNST Konstantin Lvovich (b. 1961) graduated from the faculty of zoo engineering at the Moscow Agricultural Academy in 1983, while his father was the vice-president of the academy. He worked at the research institute, where he was the secretary of the Komsomol branch. He soon got a job at Videofilm Cooperative, where he shot the documentary Radio Silence about the musician Boris Grebenshchikov.

In 1989-1989, at the invitation of Alexander Lyubimov, he worked as an interviewer, screenwriter, and director in the TV program Vzglyad on the Central Television of the USSR. From 1991 to 1995, he hosted the program on culture Matador, which aired on Central Television, then on the Ostankino Channel and the ORT channel.
From 1995 to 1998, he published a magazine under the same name.
From 1995 to 2001, he was the General Producer, and since 1999, he has been the General Director of Public Russian Television (ORT) and Channel One at the suggestion of Boris Berezovsky and Valentin Yumashev. Since May 2002, he has been a member of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 2009, he was deputy chairman of the organizing committee for the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow. In 2014, he was the chief screenwriter and creative producer of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Sochi Winter Olympics.