The Quiet Diplomat centers on former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Along with his family, Secretary General Ban was displaced during the Korean War. The UN Command fought on the side of South Korea and forever changed Ban's life, inspiring him to become a man who fought for peace throughout his career. Nearly fifty years later, Ban was selected as the 8th Secretary General of the UN. During ten years (two terms), in one of the toughest jobs in the world, “SG” Ban discovered the challenges of international, UN-led diplomacy in an increasingly splintered world.
Biography:
Charles Lyons is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker. He has produced coverage of Brazilian elections, deforestation, and Indigenous rights in the Amazon, for PBS NewsHour. Also for TNH, he produced coverage of the pandemic in Brazil, with a focus on marginalized communities on tribal lands and in favelas. In 2023, he received a Conservando Juntos/ Earth Journalism Network grant, to report on violence due to illegal gold mining in the Yanomami territory in Brazil. Also, he produced short films and reports on human rights issues for the UN in Japan, Brazil and India; and he contributed articles to The New York Times.
Chaim Litewski has produced films for the British Film Institute’s Production Board, Channel Four U.K., NBC, RAI and many other international broadcasters. He worked for Brazil's Globo Television Network in London and Rio de Janeiro. In February 1991 Chaim Litewski was invited to join the UN in New York as a media producer. Before retiring in September 2016, he headed the UN’s Television/Video Section where he directed several programs including "World Chronicle'', documentaries such as Cyber-Tales of Three Cities, Waging Peace, and Armed to the Teeth.
Susan Lee MacDonald, a veteran broadcaster, educator and producer of TV/Radio and documentary programs in South Korea. She wrote, hosted, and helped produce The INNERview talk show, viewed in 188 countries with more than 125 hour-long episodes as well as several documentaries with the Untold Stories series. As a columnist for Joongang and Donga Ilbo newspapers, Susan wrote about discrimination against foreigners, cram schools, hyper competition and meditation.
