Speaker

Award-winning broadcaster and author Scott Russell has covered 14 Olympic Games and is a CBC Sports veteran of more than three decades. He is a winner of the Gemini Award, Canadian Screen Award and CBC President’s Award. Scott is the host of Olympic Games Prime Time and the co-Host of Road to the Olympic Games. Russell also hosted CBC’s primetime coverage of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games. In 2014, Russell was the network’s on-site host for coverage of the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland – his sixth Commonwealth Games with CBC – as well as hosting CBC’s primetime coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™. He has also hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa and the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup Germany. In addition, Russell was a host and rink-side reporter for CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada for 14 years. Russell has penned two books on hockey - Ice Time: A Canadian Hockey Journey and The Rink - Stories from Hockey’s Hometowns, which he co-wrote with Chris Cuthbert. Russell’s third book, Open House: Canada and the Magic of Curling, is a grassroots look at one of this country’s favourite sports.