Loreen Arbus
 
Arbus, Loreen President and Executive Producer, Individual Membership Chair, Women's Leadership Board
Loreen Arbus Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

Experience: Experience: Loreen Arbus is President / Executive Producer of Loreen Arbus Productions, Inc, a multi-tiered production company that develops nonfiction programming for network, cable, syndication and the Internet. She also holds the distinction of being the first woman in the U.S. to oversee all programming for television networks, Showtime and Cable Health Network / Lifetime. Arbus is an Emmy nominee and the author of six nonfiction books. She is a member of The Writers Guild and The Author’s Guild. Arbus is a philanthropist and women and minority rights activist. She is also an internationally recognized Argentine Tango dancer and choreographer. Boards (partial list): Executive Committee, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Women’s Leadership Board; Harvard School of Public Health; Harvard Medical School Advisory Committee for Neurobiology; The New York Women’s Forum; Paley Center for Media; Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation; Producer’s Guild; the Women’s Media Center; United Cerebral Palsy Associations; Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation; Weizmann Institute of Science; Town Hall Los Angeles and she is a member of the Brookings Institution. Awards (partial list): The Heart of Giving Award presented by President Bill Clinton; a Doctorate of Humanities awarded by The Philippine Women’s University; the Hollywood Reporter’s Power 100 Women In Entertainment; Excellence In Media Award presented by National Organization of Women; the Genii Award for Lifetime Achievement presented by American Women in Radio & Television; the National Association of Women Business Owners Hall of Fame Award; the Distinguished Service Award presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; the Disability Awareness Award presented by The California Governor’s Committee for Employment of Disabled Persons; Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World 2002.