Bela Bajaria

Bela Bajaria is Vice President, Content at Netflix, the world’s leading internet entertainment service. Joining in November 2016, Bajaria oversees oversees the company’s push into unscripted programming including reality and talk show formats, including talk series with David Letterman, Michelle Wolf and Joel McHale. She also leads the team responsible for working with studios to co-produce and co-license series internationally with Netflix, including Star Trek: Discovery (CBS), Riverdale and Black Lightning (Warner Bros.), and the upcoming Good Girls (Universal Television), among others. Previously, Bajaria was President of Universal Television, where she shepherded creative programming including the Emmy-nominated Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, as well as hit primetime broadcast series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mindy Project, Bates Motel, Grimm and Chicago Fire. Earlier, she held two key posts simultaneously: Senior Vice President, Cable Programming for CBS TV Studios, and Senior Vice President of Movies and Miniseries for the CBS network. She was the President of the Hollywood Radio & Television Society, and currently is an executive board member of the Television Academy and serves on the board of Women in Film and Los Angeles’ Saban Community Clinic. She is involved in a variety of philanthropic endeavors, including SAHARA, a non-profit organization that serves victims of domestic violence. Bajaria has been honored by the “I Have a Dream” Foundation of Los Angeles, The March of Dimes Foundation, and was given the Industry Leadership Award from the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. Bajaria resides in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.