Katherine Maher was announced as the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation at the annual Wikimania Conference on 24th June 2016. In this session, she has her first Q&A with the assembled Wikipedians at the conference.
Wikimania is the annual conference
celebrating Wikipedia and its sister free knowledge projects with
conferences, discussions, meetups, training and a hackathon. Hundreds of
volunteer editors come together to learn about and discuss projects,
approaches and issues.
In 2016, Wikimania was held in Esino Lario, Province of Lecco, Lombardy Region, Italy, on June 22–23 (pre-conference), 24–26 (main conference) and 27–28 (post-conference), 2016.
Read more about Katherine's appointment here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/06/24/katherine-maher-executive-director/