Indian on Emmy Awards council

Bhuvan Lall, executive director of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation, has been elected member of the New York-based International Council of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

The council, chartered in 1969, was created to honour the best in television programming outside the United States.

Its members, who are top-level executives in the international broadcast industry, selected the programmes which will honoured with the International Emmy Award.

Lall has been elected for a two-year term.

The Indian Broadcasting Foundation is the nation's largest organisation devoted to television broadcasters. The current president of this non-profit organisation is Rajeeva Ratna Shah, CEO, Prasar Bharati.

The IBF identifies and pursues growth opportunities and ensures that Foundation members present a strong collective voice, both nationally and globally.

Lall said he would work with his international colleagues to help shape the worldwide future of television. He added that new technological advances had given Indian programming a global reach.