Board of Directors

Trina McQueen

President
Hutton-Belleville Inc.
Toronto

Trina McQueen was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada in February 2005 for a five-year term.

A celebrated broadcaster and journalist with extensive senior management experience in both public and private broadcasting, Ms. McQueen brings to the Board an intimate knowledge of the challenges and opportunities in Canadian broadcasting.

Ms. McQueen was President and Chief Operating Officer of CTV Inc., President of the Discovery Channel, and CBC Television's Vice-President of News and Current Affairs and CBC Newsworld. She served on the boards of the Canadian Television Fund, Telefilm, and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters. In recognition of her many achievements, she was elected to the Canadian Broadcaster's Hall of Fame and the Canadian News Hall of Fame and has received three honourary degrees and numerous other awards.

Ms. McQueen began her television career as the first female host of CTV's W-5. Later she moved to CBC Television as an on-air reporter. Her senior management positions at CBC/Radio-Canada included Executive Producer of CBC Television's The National, Network Program Director, Director of the Television Network, and Vice-President of Regional Broadcasting.

Since her retirement in 2003, she has been CTV Professor of Broadcast Management at Schulich School of Business at York University. She is a board member of organizations supporting higher education, the arts and broadcasting, including the Canadian Opera Company, the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research, the Canadian Journalism Foundation, the Canadian Media Research Consortium, Historica, PEN Canada, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. She is a member of the advisory boards of the Queen's School of Policy Studies, Kroeger College of Public Affairs at Carleton University, and the National Film Board. She has also been a director for a number of private and publicly traded companies.