ABU Secretariat

The Secretariat is headed by the Secretary-General. Dr Javad Mottaghi, who is the chief executive of the ABU, is responsible for all of the Union's activities. He reports to the Administrative Council and the General Assembly.

The Secretary-General's office handles administration, staffing, public and international relations, finance and information systems.

The Secretariat has four other departments: ABU Programming, ABU Technology, ABU Sports and Asiavision, each headed by a director who reports directly to the Secretary-General.

Mr Doki is Japanese and was previously a Senior Producer at the Strategic Planning Division of the International Planning & Broadcasting Department of Japan’s public broadcaster NHK. He has had 27 years of experience in producing news programmes.

Mr Sadhu is an Indian national. He was formerly GM of Broadcast & Satellite Broadcast Engineering Division, TCIL, New Delhi. He joined the ABU in 1993.

Sedrik, a Korean national, joined the ABU in January 2012. Previously, he was a Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs and National Security News Team at KBS

An Australian, John has worked for the ABC and all three Australian commercial networks, TCS-Singapore, as well as MTV and MBC in Sri Lanka. He joined the ABU in March 2002.