Meritocracy is a wonderful thing. The increasingly flat world of the media industry, where barriers to competition — regional, cultural or technological — continue to fall, has been a boon to exceptional women from across the globe. THR has chosen — with difficulty — 20 female television executives for our annual list of the most important women in international TV. From the CEO of Europe's No. 1 broadcaster to the person who gave the green light to the BBC's drama slate to the execs transforming TV in fast-growing Turkey, these women are the small screen's global tastemakers and opinion-shapers.
Reporting by Ariston Anderson, Patrick Brzeski, Pip Bulbeck, Lee Hyo-won, Agustin Mango, Rhonda Richford, Alex Ritman, Scott Roxborough, Georg Szalai and Etan Vlessing
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