Ian Henschke
Henschke joined the ABC in 1983 and has worked on a diverse range of programs from shows for children to "Four Corners". He worked for ABC radio, Radio National, in TV production and online. He is a graduate of the Murray-Darling Leadership Program and has served on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Sustainable Systems and Technology at the University of South Australia. While acting as a Staff-elected Director of the ABC from 2000–2002 he worked with the board to obtain $70 million extra funding. He made efforts to secure The Australia Network for the ABC and saw Radio Australia's signal was boosted. During his time on the board the managing director Jonathan Shier was replaced by Russell Balding. He has referred to his two years on the board as "the most important years of my life and some of the most important for the ABC". In 2013 he stood for a position as Staff Elected Director of the ABC again, but was unsuccessful. Veteran Sydney-based current affairs journalist Matt Peacock won the position. Henschke completed a Bachelor of Arts degree with an Honours in English Language & Literature and has a Diploma of Education from the University of Adelaide. He worked as a teacher before studying (under teachers such as Arch McKirdy and Robert Peach) and then worked on staff at the Australian Film Television and Radio School from 1980–1982. He is a graduate of the Murray-Darling Leadership Program. In 1999 he was awarded the inaugural ABC Reuters Foundation Fellowship to Oxford University. He studied carbon sequestration and climate change and produced the documentary "Emission Impossible""." It was screened on ABCTV and BBC World and won the Grenoble International Film Festival Jury Prize in 2000.
Education
He is a former South Australian television and radio journalist and presenter. He reported for 7.30 Report in the 1980s and 1990s and in the late 1990s worked for ABCTV’s Landline.
His 4 Corners in 1999 was a documentary about global warming that won the Jury Prize at the 2000 Grenoble International Film Festival.