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Jian Ghomeshi is an award-winning broadcaster, writer, musician and producer who was born in London, England and is based in Toronto. He is the host and co-creator of the national daily talk program, Q, on CBC Radio One and Bold TV. Since its inception in 2007, Q has garnered the largest audience of any cultural affairs program in Canada and has become the highest-rated show in its morning time slot in CBC history.

Mixing insight and opinion with his trademark unscripted wit, Jian has interviewed an array of prominent international figures from prime ministers to sports stars and cultural icons. Recently, his feature interview subjects have included Woody Allen, Van Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Jane Fonda, Radiohead, Barbara Walters, Tom Waits, William Shatner and a television world-exclusive with Leonard Cohen.

Jian has hosted a number of television documentaries, including The End, Screw the Vote and the forthcoming Philanthropy Inc. and spent three years as the host of the Gemini Award-winning CBC Television program, Play. He has appeared as a contributor or guest on programs ranging from CNN Today and The National, to Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Jian is also a writer whose editorials and opinion pieces have been published in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and The International Herald Tribune. In 2008 he became a weekly columnist for The National Post.

As a singer, songwriter, and musician, Jian was a member of multi-platinum selling folk-rock group, Moxy Früvous. He toured internationally during the 1990s and shared stages with a variety of artists including Bob Dylan, Ani Difranco and Elvis Costello. Jian continues to write and produce music through his company, Wonderboy Entertainment, and manages the career of rising international star, LIGHTS, whom he has managed since 2001.

He has worked with many arts groups including 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.

Born in London, of Iranian descent, Jian lives in Toronto, where he enjoys supporting a losing hockey team and eating pistachios.