Dana Walden

Dana Walden is the chairman of Disney Television Studios and ABC Entertainment, overseeing the group of business units that includes Disney Television Studios, ABC Entertainment, Freeform and the ABC Owned Television Stations. Walden additionally oversees the Hulu Scripted Originals team. She reports to Peter Rice, chairman, Walt Disney Television. She previously served as chairman and CEO of Fox Television Group, which comprised the Fox Broadcasting Company, 20th Century Fox Television and Fox 21 Television Studios, the licensing division Fox Consumer Products and syndication supplier, Twentieth Television. Recently chosen by Variety as one of six Power of Women honorees and named Executive of the Year by The Hollywood Reporter, she has received NATPE's Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award for her contribution to the industry, was named MIPCOM's "Personality of the Year," was inducted into Broadcasting & Cable's Television Hall of Fame, and was named "Showman of the Year" by Variety and "