Jian Ghomeshi

Who is Jian Ghomeshi?

Jian Ghomeshi, born June 9, 1967, is a Canadian broadcaster, writer, musician and producer of Iranian descent. He was born in London, UK and raised in Thornhill, Ontario. Now based in Toronto, he is the host of the national daily cultural affairs talk program, Q, on CBC Radio One and CBC TV. The show, which he co-created in 2007, now has the largest audience of any cultural affairs program in Canada and has gained the all-time highest audience share for a CBC program in its morning time slot. Q now airs on over 150 stations in the USA including WBEZ in Chicago, WNYC in New York, WUFT in Florida, WMAE in Booneville, Mississippi, and WDET in Detroit.

Ghomeshi has interviewed an array of prominent international figures from prime ministers to sports stars and cultural icons. His feature interview subjects have included Woody Allen, MGMT, Van Morrison, Stephen Fry, Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens, Jane Fonda, Abbas Milani, deadmau5, The Killers, Dirty Projectors, Radiohead, Barbara Walters, Los Campesinos!, Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Neil Young, Apache Indian, William Shatner, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of Rush, Gretchen Rubin, Phyllis Diller and Leonard Cohen.