Michel Cormier is a career journalist, author and expert consultant on journalism. He was executive director of news and current affairs at Radio-Canada from 2012 to 2018 and he currently serves as executive director of the Leaders’ Debates Commission.

Michel Cormier began his broadcasting career at Radio-Canada in Moncton. He has been a parliamentary correspondent for Radio-Canada and CBC in Ottawa, Quebec National Assembly bureau chief and foreign correspondent in Moscow, Paris and Beijing. From 2011 to 2012, he was director of Radio-Canada Acadie in Moncton.

He authored five books, including biographies of Richard Hatfield and Louis Robichaud; the latter won the Prix France-Acadie. His La Russie des Illusions was a finalist for the Governor General Award.

Michel Cormier sits on the boards of Reporters Without Boarders and Journalists for Human Rights. He has received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Carleton University and a master’s degree in political science from Laval University. He has lectured on journalism ethics at Université de Montréal.

A Cocagne (New Brunswick) native, he spends his summers at Cap-de-Cocagne.