Bela Bajaria, chief content officer at Netflix, will receive the International Emmy Founders Award at the annual International Emmy Awards gala in New York City this November.
“Bela Bajaria is among the most consequential executives in television today,” said Bruce L. Paisner, president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. “She has built a global content operation of remarkable scale and creative ambition, in which stories told in any language can become worldwide phenomena. Her leadership has produced some of the most celebrated programming of our era. We are thrilled to present her with the International Emmy Founders Award.”
“I am deeply honored to receive this recognition from the International Academy, whose mission reflects everything I believe about what television can be,” said Bajaria. “The stories that have resonated most with audiences around the world are the ones rooted in a specific place, a specific truth—and what we have proven, over and over, is that authenticity travels. That is a gift I never take for granted, and I am so proud of the extraordinary creators and teams who make it possible every day.”
Past recipients of the International Emmy Founders Award include Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, J.J. Abrams, Jesse Armstrong, Shonda Rhimes, Ryan Murphy, David E. Kelley, and most recently, Disney’s Dana Walden.
The 54th International Emmy Awards Gala takes place in New York on November 23.
