A Conversation with Carribean Broadcasting Union Leaders

Media & Society Speaker Series

The next presentation in the Media & Society Speaker Series is a conversation with Carribean Broadcasting Union Leaders, Dr. Claire Grant (President) and Mrs. Sonia D. Gill (Secretary General)

Conference hosted by the Media and Society Research Group (HEC, UQO, Mount Allison University, and Military College of Canada) and the Department of International Business

Hybrid Conference :
Transcontinental classroom on the 3rd floor in CSC building
Online on Zoom

For more information please contact: javad.mottaghi@hec.ca

Dr. Claire Grant, President of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union - CBU

Deputy Chief Executive Officer RJRGLEANER Communications Group Dr Claire Grant is an experienced media management executive with a demonstrated history of working in the media industry covering broadcast, print and online (OTT). She is currently involved in the Digital Switch Over transitioning of television services at the RJRGLEANER Communications Group of Companies in Jamaica. Skilled in Marketing Management, Business Planning, Creating Rounded Teams, Sales, and Event Management, Dr. Grant has strategic understanding of the environment of a dynamic media space from working with leading Caribbean media brands for more than 30 years on the editorial, programming and sales, marketing and strategic management side of the industry. She holds a Doctor of Business Administration degree focused on Advertising and Marketing from the Mona School of Business and Management at the University of the West Indies (UWI). She is also an adjunct lecturer at the UWI’s Caribbean School of Media and Communication. Since June 2022, Dr. Grant has been the President of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union, and Chairs the body’s highest governance body, the Board of Directors.

Mrs. Sonia D. Gill, Secretary General of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union - CBU

Sonia Gill is an attorney at law, development practitioner and former broadcast journalist, and media regulator. She is also the first woman to be appointed as Secretary General of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (2014-2018 & 2021 – present). An honours graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of London (UoL), between stints in service to the CBU Sonia served as the Multi-Country Manager and Head of Programme for UNOPS in the Dutch and English CaribbeanHer prior UN experiences was as the Assistant Resident Representative and Governance Advisor of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) office covering Jamaica, Belize, the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. After post-graduate studies in Mass Communication at UWI Mona, Sonia held the post of Assistant Executive Director, and Executive Director (Ag.) of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica for over a decade. She was also a faculty member of the Caribbean School of Media and Communications (CARIMAC) at the UWI, Mona, lecturing in Media Skills as well as Media and Language. She began her career as a Reporter, Editor and Producer at the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation in Barbados. Sonia is a member of both the Barbados and Jamaica Bars, and for more than a decade lectured in Constitutional and Administrative Law.