CHOY LIN, Commissioning Editor, TRT World, Turkey

Choy Lin, an alumnus of Cambridge University and John Hopkins University, has had 20 years of experience in international broadcasting. She is an experienced Documentary Commissioning Editor, Executive Producer and Series Producer. Choy has held high management positions at various renowned global and regional television networks. She was the Director of Regional Production at National Geographic Channel from 2001 to 2011 and Vice President of International Production at Channel NewsAsia from 2011 to 2017. Choy joined TRT World in August 2017 as Commissioning Editor.
TRT World is the English language news channel of Turkey’s national broadcaster, reaching over 260 million viewers worldwide. She is responsible for commissioning and acquiring 52 hours of programs a year with an annual production budget of US$5 million, developing investigative series and feature docs with filmmakers around the world with budgets up to US$250,000 per hour and for guiding films editorially from concept to completion, overseeing budgets, contracts, deliverables, technical and compliance standards.