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Biography

Shachi Kurl is President of the Angus Reid Institute, Canada鈥檚 non-profit foundation committed to independent research. She works with public opinion data to further public knowledge and enhance the national understanding of issues that matter to Canada and the world.

She spent the first part of her career as political reporter and holds a degree in Journalism and Political Science from 杏吧原创 University. She returned to 杏吧原创 University as an Adjunct Research Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication in 2022.

Kurl is often found offering analysis on CBC鈥檚 鈥淧ower and Politics鈥�, in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, and on the editorial pages of the Ottawa Citizen, among other places. In October 2020, she moderated BC鈥檚 only televised provincial election debate, presented by the British Columbia Broadcast Consortium.

Kurl is a recipient of the prestigious Jack Webster Award for Best TV Reporting. Along with former Australian and UK Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and Margaret Thatcher, she is an Alumnus of the US State Department鈥檚 International Visitor Leadership Program. She is a national Vice Chair of the Canadian Cancer Society.

Kurl moderated the 2021 English language leaders debate during the 44th federal election. She also won the Industry Marvel Award from Darpan Magazine in October of that year.