Susan Ormiston is a host/correspondent for CBC Television and Radio based in Toronto, primarily at CBC-TV's The National.

For over 25 years, she has reported from some of the world's most notable places: South Africa in 1994, as Nelson Mandela was elected President; Beirut under bombardment in 2006; and since 2007, she's brought Canadians closer to the Afghanistan war with her extensive reporting from Kabul to Kandahar and in between.

In 2007, Ormiston won a Gemini for Best Reportage for her work from Afghanistan. It was her second Gemini. In 1996, a documentary on multiculturalism won her a first Gemini. She also holds four Radio Television News Directors Awards.

Ormiston is a widely respected interviewer. Her high-profile one-on-one interviews include President Bill Clinton, Governor General Michaelle Jean, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, race car champion Gilles Villeneuve, Sir David Frost, Peter Munk and Dennis Kozlowski, in jail. She's talked to countless cabinet ministers, premiers and diplomats, and told the stories of hundreds of ordinary Canadians caught up in extraordinary circumstances. Her reports from unusual places stand out: inside a notorious Afghan prison; touring the bombed-out suburbs of Beirut; from the front lines of forest fires in the Yukon; and from the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Ormiston began at CBC as a young reporter, but she's worked with both of Canada's major networks-CBC and CTV. At CTV, she was host/correspondent for W-Five, an award-winning investigative program. She also guest-hosted Canada AM, and for two years reported from the TSX for CTV Newsnet.

Since her return to CBC in 2001, she has guest-hosted CBC News: Morning, The Current, As It Happens and CBC News Sunday, spent a season with the investigative show the fifth estate, and time with Marketplace. Ormiston also hosted her own media program, Inside Media, on CBC Newsworld. She and her team branded a new feature during the 2008 federal election, Ormiston Online, a cross-platform, television, web and radio project. It was nominated for a Gemini in 2009. She currently does documentaries and news reports for The National, CBC Newsworld and CBC Radio programming.

Ormiston speaks frequently on the ongoing Afghan conflict, and more recently on social media and online politics. She spent a decade as a volunteer speaker and motivator on care and research for Alzheimer's disease. She's an avid traveller-and has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and run a marathon-but her home base is in Toronto, with her husband and two sons.