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📅 Years active: 2014 to 2014
Since 2007, Sue Gardner has served as the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the global non-profit that operates Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia, which is free to use and free of advertising. Wikipedia contains more than 30 million volunteer-authored articles in over 280 languages, and is visited by more than 516 million people every month, making it the fifth most popular website in the world.
Ms. Gardner, a seasoned journalist, was formerly head of CBC.ca, the website for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, one of Canada's most prominent and best-loved cultural institutions. Under her leadership, CBC.ca won many international awards for excellence, and grew to become Canada's most popular news site. She started her career in 1990 as a producer with CBC's "As It Happens," an internationally-recognized groundbreaking news and current events radio program. She has worked in radio, television, newspapers, magazines and online.
Sue Gardner has been described as the librarian to the world and the Mother Teresa of the Internet. In 2009, she was voted by Huffington Post readers as their media game-changer of the year and in 2012, Forbes magazine named her the world's 70th most powerful woman. Her work is motivated by the desire to ensure that everyone in the world has free and easy access to the information they want and need.
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