Sarah Yuen

Sarah Yuen Gilliat (born 1965) is a British television executive and journalist who was the acting executive supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest for the 2003 contest and as the European Broadcasting Union’s head of live events from 2000 to 2005.

Career Yuen began working in television in the United Kingdom as a teenager, progressing through research, production and newsroom roles before moving into international reporting and documentary production, including several years based in Hong Kong covering major breaking news and making documentaries across Asia.

Following the departure of long-serving Eurovision Song Contest executive supervisor Christine Marchal-Ortiz, the EBU appointed Yuen to take responsibility for the 2003 contest, as acting Executive Supervisor for that edition. and is generally listed among the contest’s executive supervisors in official and historical overviews.

Yuen was instrumental in the song contest's format development during the early 2000s that led to the introduction of a semi-final from 2004; contemporary reporting identified her as the official who communicated this decision to the press.

After appointing Svante Stockselius as executive supervisor from 2004, she continued in EBU Live Events roles in the early–mid 2000s, with responsibilities spanning the Eurovision family of contests (including Eurovision Young Dancers and Junior Eurovision Song Contest).

In the 2010s and 2020s she also worked in strategic communications and training, and later retrained as a clinical hypnotherapist focusing on PTSD and founding the practitioner network CATCH PTSD.