Biography

Barbara Sue-Ting-Len

As Chief of the United Nations Audio-Visual Promotion and Distribution in the Department of Public Information, Ms. Sue-Ting-Len is responsible for the world wide promotion, marketing and distribution of all the UN's aduio-visual products to television, schools, radio broadcasters, non-governmental organizations, commercial distributors and through UN offices; she represents UN and its agencies at such prestigous international media markets and festivals as the Cannes Television Festival, Cannes, France; National Association of Television Producing Executives and the World Education Market. Ms. Sue-Ting-Len has worked previously at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures in Toronto, Canada.

A graduate of Queens College and the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York, she has also studied Entertainment Law, Music Publishing and Copyright Law at Baruch College, NY; Contract negotiations and International marketing and planning at New York University. In 1996 Ms. STL also studied Planning and Implementation of International Digital Satellite transmissions at INTELSAT, Washington, DC. As an intern at the BBC, London, she studied International Broadcasting Feedback and Evaluation systems, Audience Research techniques, quantative and qualitative analysis.

Ms. Sue-Ting-Len is a member of the Board of the New York International Festivals; Member of the Honorary Committee of the World Forum on Children's Television, Barcelona, Spain; Member of the British Academy of Film, Television and Arts; Board Member of the WorldMedia Festivals, Hamburg, Germany;

Ms. STL was also the Vice President of the Jury and Judge of the lst International Media & Health Film Festival in Portugal and has done television award judging for numerous international television and documentary festivals including the International Emmy awards; she has addressed seminars on communications in Munich, Germany; Lima, Peru and Toronto, Canada and has written a white paper on "Violence on Children's Television Programmes".