PERSON: Linda Vester

Institute of International Education (IIE)

Vice Chair

Linda Vester (born June 11, 1965) is an American television news host. She was the anchor of NBC News at Sunrise on NBC and DaySide with Linda Vester on the Fox News. She left television in 2005 to raise her children. She later produced an award-winning documentary and most recently founded a website for moms.

Linda Vester is the daughter of the late Joan Vester Schoettinger and the late Dr. John Vester of Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1987. She received an honors diploma from the Sorbonne in France after attending for one semester in 1985. In 1998 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study Arabic and Middle East Affairs at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. She learned to speak both French and Arabic fluently

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