Terry McCarthy

Advisory Board

Terry McCarthy is CEO of the American Society of Cinematographers. He oversees the ASC’s live events on movies and TV series, as well as the ASC’s technology committees, education programs, and the publishing of their 100-year old magazine, American Cinematographer. In 2018 he was President of the American Academy in Berlin, and from 2012 he was President and CEO of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. Prior to that, he traveled the world for television and print media for 27 years, covering politics, business, military, social and environmental issues across the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America for TIME magazine, ABC News and CBS News. He has managed bureaus in the US and overseas and set up two bureaus in war zones. He speaks six languages, has won four Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow award.