Jian Ghomeshi, Master of Ceremonies

Jian Ghomeshi has been the host of CBC Radio's Q, since its inception in 2007. In the spring of 2009, Q became CBC Radio's highest rated program (ever!) in the network's 10 a.m. time slot. Jian also spent three years as the host of the Gemini Award winning CBC television program, Play, and he has hosted and contributed to a variety of other CBC Radio and TV programs including The National Playlist, Sounds Like Canada, 50 Tracks, Zed, The End, and The Hour.

Jian has conducted feature interviews with an array of Canadian and international guests on Q. Amongst them are artists, politicians, celebrities, and cultural figures, including Woody Allen, Leonard Cohen, Ornette Coleman, Shirley Maclean, David Cronenberg, Phil Collins, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, Chick Corea, Sarah Polley, Naomi Klein, Paul Anka, and William Shatner.

Before coming to Q, Jian worked with many arts groups such as the National Ballet, the COC and the Radio Starmaker Fund, and he is a former member of the Board of Governors at the Stratford Theatre Festival. Jian is also a writer whose editorials and opinion pieces have been published in The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and The International Herald Tribune. He is currently a frequent contributor to The National Post.

As a singer, songwriter and musician, Jian was a member of the multi-platinum selling folk-rock group, Moxy Früvous. He toured internationally during the 1990s with the band, and shared stages with a variety of artists including Bob Dylan,Van Morrison, Ani Difranco and Elvis Costello. Jian maintains his interest in the music community and currently manages the Juno Award winning, synth-pop artist, LIGHTS.
Of Iranian descent, Jian was born in London, UK, and now lives in Toronto, where he enjoys supporting a losing hockey team and eating pistachios.