Board of Directors

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 ensuring that CBC/Radio-Canada is a well-managed organisation, in order that Canada’s national public broadcaster can continue to provide Canadians with distinctive, innovative and compelling programming of the highest quality, created by, for and about Canadians. Mr. Lacroix works closely with members of CBC/Radio-Canada’s Senior Management Committee and the Board of Directors.

Just before joining CBC/Radio-Canada, Mr. Lacroix held the position of Senior Advisor with the Montréal office of Stikeman Elliott, a law firm renowned 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, previous to working as Senior Advisor to Telemedia Ventures. Before joining Telemedia, he was a Senior Partner with another 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 SFK Pulp Fund and a trustee of the different entities in this unit trust structure. He is also a Director of Zarlink Semiconductor. In addition, he is a Trustee of the Lucie and André Chagnon Foundation and a Director of their private holding company, a Trustee of the Martlet Foundation of McGill University, 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, the Fonds de développement du Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and l’Accueil Bonneau. Mr. Lacroix is included in the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers of Canada. He was 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. In addition, he was amongst the first Directors in Canada to complete the ICD Corporate Governance College program, and holds the certified designation of ICD.D.