Kas Roussy is CBC News's Latin America news producer, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

While assigned there, Roussy has covered earthquakes in both Haiti and Chile, as well as environmental issues in Brazil's Amazon. Prior to that, she was a National News correspondent, based in Toronto.

Roussy also spent four and a half years as CBC's television news producer in Beijing, China. While there, she covered stories such as the droughts in Mongolia, the economic crisis in Japan, the Sydney Summer Olympics, elections in Taiwan and Indonesia, an earthquake in Taiwan and the referendum for independence in East Timor.

Roussy also spent several weeks in Pakistan, and Afghanistan where she covered the war on terrorism, and followed Canadian troops deployed to eastern Afghanistan.

Roussy joined CBC Television National News in July 1990 as the first national reporter based permanently in New Brunswick. She then became the Halifax National correspondent covering all of the Maritimes.

Roussy’s career has also included two years as a general assignment reporter for Toronto's CBC At 6, where her reports on the difficulties in opening the city's SkyDome stadium resulted in a nomination for best reportage at the 1989 Gemini Awards. Before working at CBC Toronto, Roussy was a TV news reporter at CBC Calgary and CBC Edmonton. She started out in TV in 1981 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan.

Born in Cornwall, Ont., Roussy studied television broadcasting at Loyalist College in Belleville. She is bilingual.