JILL OVIATT Jill Oviatt has more than 10 years experience as a senior broadcast journalist and six years in corporate communications and training in North America and Asia. Throughout the 1990s, Jill spent nine years as a television reporter, presenter and producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on one of the network's major-market prime time news programs. Since then, Jill has media trained hundreds of executives for numerous clients including ABN-AMRO, AIG, Buena Vista Television International, CIHI, GlaxoSmithKline, Microsoft, Nomura, Standard & Poor's, Legg Mason and The Walt Disney Company. Prior to relocating to Hong Kong and joining Coory & Associates in late 2006, Jill was based in Ottawa, Canada, where she managed a media relations team at the Canadian Institute for Health Information. In this role, Jill was responsible for media strategy and training the Institute's numerous media spokespeople nationwide. Her work at CIHI followed three years in the Philippines where Jill worked as a freelance reporter and political commentator for CBC Radio and a communications consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO). Before joining CBC, Jill spent two years as a news reporter and producer for Montreal Talk Radio station, CJAD. Jill holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Cum Laude) with a major in Journalism from California State University, USA. In 1998 she won a Bronze Medal at the Columbus Film and Video Awards for her two-part documentary Witnessing: Inside and Out. Jill lives in Hong Kong with her husband and two teenage children.
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