Howard Green, perhaps best known as the face of Business News Network’s (BNN) flagship interview program from 2007 to 2014, will be the Chamber of Commerce’s keynote at its annual Business Dinner in October.
As a business journalist for nearly three decades and a businessman in his own right as one of the founders of BNN, Green is in a unique position to parse the relationship between current events and bu
“It will be very interesting to learn how the headlines of the day, month, year, can inform us on business and the economy in Canada along with insights from our country’s business leaders,” said Gillian Potter, co-chair of the Chamber’s events committee.
Carol Yaholnitsky, the other co-chair, noted that Green has a Yorkton connection as a winner of a Golden Sheaf Award in 1997 for his documentary Political Pulp, an episode of CBC’s Venture program.
He has also won a Gemini for The Investigation of Swiss Air 111, 2003, a documentary for CBC and Swiss National Television.
Green anchored at BNN from its inception in 1999 to 2006 and hosted Headline with Howard Green on from 2007 to 2014. During that span he estimates he conducted some 14,000 interviews including the likes of British Prime Minister Tony Blair to the eccentric visionary billionaire Sir Richard Branson.
In 2016, he took a sabbatical to accept a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship at Columbia University.
Green is currently a communications consultant and best-selling author of the 2013 book Banking on America: How TD Bank Rose to the Top and Took on the USA.
Tickets for the October 5 Business Dinner at St. Mary’s are currently on sale. The Chamber also has sponsorship opportunities available.
