Speaker Marie-Philippe Bouchard
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Marie-Philippe Bouchard was appointed President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada on October 18, 2024, for a five-year term, effective January 3, 2025.
A member of the Quebec Bar since 1985, Marie-Philippe Bouchard joined the CBC/Radio-Canada Law Department in 1987 after beginning her career as a lecturer and researcher in communications law at the Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP), a public law research centre run by the University of Montreal’s Faculty of Law.
From 1987 to 2016, she held a variety of management and senior executive positions at CBC/Radio-Canada in strategic planning and regulatory affairs, television news and current affairs, radio news, as well as music and digital services, for which she was general manager until January 2016.
From 2016 to 2024, she served as president and CEO of TV5 Québec Canada, where she was responsible for managing all aspects of the TV5 / Unis TV channels and the TV5Unis platform, in addition to presiding over TV5 Numérique from 2019 until late 2024.
Ms. Bouchard holds a master’s degree in public law from the University of Montreal and in 2020-21, she obtained an ethics and compliance certificate from Executive Education HEC Montréal.
Speaking on: State of the Nation
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