Board of Directors

Hubert T. Lacroix
President and CEO
Montréal

Hubert T. Lacroix was appointed President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada on November 5, 2007, for a five-year term. He began his mandate on January 1, 2008.

As President and CEO, Mr. Lacroix is responsible for overseeing the management of CBC/Radio-Canada in order to ensure that Canada’s national public broadcaster can deliver on the various aspects of its mandate and continue to offer Canadians a broad spectrum of high quality programming that informs, enlightens and entertains, and that is created by, for and about Canadians.

Just before joining CBC/Radio-Canada, Mr. Lacroix held the position of Senior Advisor with the Montréal office of Stikeman Elliott, a law firm recognized nationally and internationally for its business law practice. Prior thereto, Mr. Lacroix acted as Executive Chairman of Telemedia Corporation and of the other Boards of Directors of the various companies in the Telemedia corporate structure. Before joining Telemedia, he was a Senior Partner at McCarthy Tétrault, a major Canadian law firm

Mr. Lacroix received his Bachelor of Civil Law (1976) and his Master’s degree in Business Administration (1981) from McGill University. He has been a member of the Bar since 1977.

Mr. Lacroix is the Chairman of the Board of Fibrek Inc. In addition, he is a Trustee of the Lucie and André Chagnon Foundation and a Director of their private holding company and a Director of the Montréal General Hospital Foundation.

Over the years, Mr. Lacroix has also sat on the Boards of Transcontinental, Cambior, Donohue, Circo Craft Co., ITS Limited Partnership, Adventure Electronics, Michelin Canada, Secor, Zarlink Semiconductor Inc., the Fonds de développement du Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, the Martlet Foundation of McGill University and l’Accueil Bonneau.

Just before he started at CBC/Radio-Canada, Mr. Lacroix was included in the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers of Canada. He also spent five years as an Adjunct Professor with the Faculty of Law at Université de Montréal where he taught securities, mergers and acquisitions law. He also taught the business law module at the Quebec Bar School. Finally, he was among the first in Canada to complete the ICD Corporate Governance College program, and holds the certified designation of ICD.D.