MUMBAI: Newly appointed BBC Worldwide executive VP, GM for Asia, Joyce Yeung, has named her leadership team who will be responsible for the running of BBC Worldwide?s business in Asia.

The appointments follow the reorganisation of BBC Worldwide to further increase its focus on international markets, enabling it to capture future growth opportunities around the world.

The reorganisation sees the business reconfigured from divisional to geographic lines of management. BBC Worldwide?s structure primarily based around five global divisions ceased to exist on 31 March. P&L ownership and primary commercial accountability has moved closer to its customers.

She reports to president, Global Markets Paul Dempsey.

Reporting into Joyce will be:

Mark Whitehead - senior VP & GM south east Asia and channels lead Asia. In addition to the SEA remit, he is also the channels lead for all of Asia overseeing the regional channels strategy in conjunction with other territory leads.

Myleeta Aga - senior VP & GM India and content lead Asia. In additional to the India remit, Aga is also the creative lead overseeing the Asia content strategy working with other territory leads.

Ken Munekata - president Japan
Pierre Cheung - VP & GM greater China
Soojin Chung - head of Korea
Ken Cheung - head of digital Asia

Each territory head is responsible for the P&L; business development and delivering revenue and profit growth across all businesses which will include channels; TV sales; consumer products and production in their respective country/ regional remits.

BBC advertising Asia and Australasia executive VP Sunita Rajan continues to head the ad sales business for Asia and Australasia with the added responsibility for BBC.com and Lonely Planet advertising sales activities in Australia. Reporting into executive VP international ad sales Carolyn Gibson, she will be working with Joyce Yeung on the ad sales business for Asia.

Yeung said: "I am looking forward to working with this very strong group of leaders in the region. With Mark, Myleeta, Ken Munekata, Pierre, Soojin, and Ken Cheung helming the business with me, I am confident that we will enjoy even more successes in taking BBC Worldwide?s Asia business to greater heights."

MUMBAI: GroupM Worldwide Chief Digital Officer Rob Norman and Fuel Media Capital co-founder Jon Miller have been appointed Non-Executive Directors of BBC Global News, which owns and operates the BBC?s commercially funded global 24 hour news channel BBC World News and bbc.com/news.
 
Norman and Miller will join the Board of Directors for BBC Global News, which includes the Director of Global News Peter Horrocks and Chief Executive Officer Jim Egan.
 
BBC Global News director Peter Horrocks said, "We want BBC Global News to offer international news to audiences in a seamless, integrated way across platforms, which is why Rob and Jon?s expertise in the digital marketplace is so important. We?ve just completed a re-launch of BBC World News from new studios in ?the world?s newsroom? in London and bringing Rob?s and Jon?s experience to the table is another big step forward for our business."

MUMBAI: A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin), a drama telling the story of the break up of a marriage and its consequences has been named the winner of the BBC Four World Cinema Award 2011.

It beat out ?Of Gods and Men?; ?The Skin I Live In?; ?Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives? and ?Le Quattro Volte? (The Four Times).

Executive producer Negar Eskandarfar collected the award at a ceremony held at the BFI Southbank as Iranian director Asghar Farhadi was unable to attend the awards ceremony in person.

On receiving the award Eskandarfar said, "I am happy that A Separation was able to attract a large audience in Iran and that it was also welcomed internationally. I am most grateful to those who have sponsored and helped this programme."

BBC commissioning editor Arts Mark Bell said, "A Separation has won plaudits from critics and filmgoers the world over. The judges debated hotly, but this emerged as the clear winner of the BBC Four World Cinema Award 2011, which celebrates excellence in international film making and underlines BBC Four?s commitment to world cinema."

The film is set at the heart of Iranian society. After 14 years of marriage Simin and Nader want to separate and when his wife leaves him, Nader hires a young woman to take care of his suffering father. But what he doesn?t know is his new maid is not only pregnant, but also working without her unstable husband?s permission. Soon Nader finds himself entangled in a web of lies, manipulation and public confrontations.

The other major prize of the evening, the BBC Four World Cinema Achievement Award, was presented to French actress Isabelle Huppert by John Hurt.