MIT World Speakers

Dick Gordon

Before joining The Connection, Dick Gordon was senior correspondent, back-up host and reporter for the CBC national current affairs radio show, This Morning. He has served as Parliamentary reporter, Moscow correspondent and South Asia correspondent for both radio and television. During the last decade, Gordon has covered conflicts in Bosnia, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Indonesia and Sri Lanka as well as the unrest in South Africa, Mozambique, Pakistan, India and the Middle East. Gordon has received two Gabriel Awards, two National Journalism Awards and has been nominated twice for the Actra Award for excellence in reporting. He graduated from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 1977, and the Kent School, Kent, Connecticut in 1973.