Speaker Details

Full Name
Michelle Cheng
Company
Special Broadcasting Service
Title
Content Industry Diversity Manager
Country (Address)
Australia
Biography
Michelle Cheng is the SBS Content Industry Diversity Manager for TV and Online content and the Co-Chair of the Screen Diversity and Inclusion Network (SDIN). At SBS, Michelle is working to improve career pathways for diverse TV creatives, investigating international best practice for screen diversity and rolling out The Everyone Project at SBS, which aims to measure diversity on and offscreen on all commissioned productions.

Michelle has a background in TV presenting/writing, journalism and law (as an Australian solicitor). From 2016 to 2020, she worked with ITV Studios and Channel 7 as a television writer on the quiz show, The Chase Australia. In 2018, she was an ABC TV panellist on the quiz show Think Tank in over 75 episodes.
Michelle Cheng