Germany and China

Emma (Chen Ping) Hoefler recently took on the responsibilities of Developent. Although she is a new face in IOV, joining in 2006, her energy and international contacts have made her a major force both in IOV internationally and in the IOV China organization.

Professionally, Emma comes to IOV from her work in the media and the Chinese film industry.  She was an actress, director, scriptwriter, sports reporter and achieved major responsibilities and recognition in every field she entered.

Emma graduated from the Communications University of China where she majored in directing.  She moved from the film industry to sports reporting in the early 1990’s.  She anchored sports news for BTV and gained an international reputation for her work in covering over a decade of Olympic Games and the athletes who excelled in them.  She brought her talents and experience to the work of the consortium of television stations in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong that covered the 1996 Atlanta Olympics for mainland China.  This group filmed a 21 part series “To Look Over Atlanta.”   The series won a “Best Television Award” and Emma was recognized with the “Outstanding Television Reporter Award.”

When she married a German architect, she moved to Germany but continues to write and work in both her native and adopted country. She writes extensively about fashion, her two children and child rearing and her bi-continental/bi-racial marriage. Her book “My Blue-Eyed Husband and Me” was well-received in Beijing.  In recent years, she has again been involved in TV shows in China including discussions of the “One Baby Family.”  In 2007 she joined the Chinese Population Welfare Foundation where she promotes large-scale festival activities which support children and poor women, the disabled and children with AIDS.

Emma is currently coordinating projects on behalf of IOV and China.  She and the IOV- USA Section have formed the Sino-US Cultural Exchange Commission.  As the Commission Co-chair, Emma led the project to bring a CCTV television crew and ten young Chinese scholars to the IOV World Youth Congress in Bountiful, Utah.

Emma now works in both China and Germany.  Her ambition is to increase the world’s awareness of Chinese traditional cultures by promoting large scale festivals and cultural events.  She considers herself a “cross-cultural” envoy.   IOV and the Youth Congress are fortunate to have her energy and international perspective.

Emma was recently appointed Chair of the IOV China Section.  In 2008, she led the 15 member China delegation to the IOV World Youth Congress and was responsible for finding sponsorship for the group.   She met with government authorities, donors, and young artists in China and successfully raised the funds to pay the airfares of the youth participants.