Board of Directors
Johanne Brunet, CGA, MBA, Ph.D.
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Marketing Professor
école des Hautes études commerciales (HEC-Montréal)
Montréal
Johanne Brunet was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada on April 21, 2005, for a three-year term.
Ms. Brunet joined HEC Montréal in 2003, and she has been teaching marketing, there, since 2005. From 2001 to 2003, she was Executive Vice-President and Partner of Distraction Formats, which acquires and sells production formats in over 50 countries. For three years prior to that, she was Executive Vice-President of TV5 Amériques, where she oversaw operations and planning in Canada, the United States and South America.
From 1977 to 1998, Ms. Brunet held various positions with CBC/Radio-Canada. At Radio-Canada, she was Director, External Production and Program Acquisitions (1993-1998); Production Manager, Youth Programs (1990-1993); Director, Planning and Administration (1985-1990); Chief of Staff, Office of the President (1984-1985); and Administrative Officer, Radio Programming (1983-1984). At CBC, she was Manager, Human Resources (1981-1983); Producer of News programs (1981); and Director/Administrator of Current Affairs (1979-1981). Finally, in Vancouver, Ms. Brunet served as Assistant to the General Manager (1977-1979) and Accountant (1976-1977).
Ms. Brunet has served on a number of committees and boards of directors in England. She has been Vice-Chair and Administrator of the Academy of International Management in London; Administrator and Director of Poles Production and Communications; and member of the Advisory Committee for the Communications Program of London's American Intercontinental University.
She has also sat on and chaired Vivavision Inc.'s Compensation Committee and is a former member of Fairfax University's Advisory Committee, which awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Business Administration degree. In 1999, Ms. Brunet received the Action femmes d'affaires award from the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montréal.
Ms. Brunet became a Certified General Accountant (C.G.A.) in 1979; holds a Master's degree in Business Administration (M.B.A., 1988) from HEC Montréal; and a Doctorate in Industrial and Business Studies from the University of Warwick in England (1999).
