Mark Kelley is the host of Connect with Mark Kelley, the new nightly news talk program on CBC News Network.

Kelley has made his name connecting with Canadians. Whether he was spending seven days as a teacher in a struggling B.C. school, or living in a homeless shelter in Montreal, Kelley goes one step further to get the stories that matter to Canadians. He has been front and centre for some of the most dramatic stories in recent memory--reporting from the frontlines of the Great Ice Storm in Montreal in 1998, to anchoring the coverage of the crash of Swissair Flight 111 in Halifax, to the attacks of  Sept. 11 when he was host of  CBC News: Morning. He has filed reports from Indonesia after the Tsunami, and hosted CBC radio's coverage of the 7/7 bombing attacks in London.

Kelley has won three Gemini awards for his live coverage and documentary work for CBC News: Disclosure and CBC News: The National.

A graduate of Concordia University, Kelley lives with his family in Toronto.