Book Sue Gardner

Sue Gardner is a Canadian journalist and nonprofit leader best known for guiding the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the world's largest online encyclopedia, as its executive director from December 2007 to May 2014. She began her career in 1990 at CBC Radio on As It Happens and spent years producing, reporting and making documentaries for CBC current affairs programming and Newsworld International. In 2006 she took charge of CBC.ca as senior director of the broadcaster's website and internet platform, expanding its team from 35 to 160 people. At Wikimedia she built out the staff, added a fundraising team and relocated the headquarters to San Francisco. The Huffington Post named her one of ten media game changers of 2009, and in 2012 she made Forbes' list of the world's most powerful women at number 70. She has since joined the board of Global Voices, advised The Tor Project on long-term strategy, served as executive director of The Markup, and in 2023 became chair of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. Her honors include the 2013 Knight Innovation Award. Gardner speaks with insight on digital media, open knowledge and the future of journalism.