Sue Gardner

Current

Executive Director at Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Education

Ryerson University

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Sue Gardner’s Summary

Sue Gardner is Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia - the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia, which is free to use and free of advertising. Wikipedia contains more than 14 million volunteer-authored articles in 250+ languages, and is visited by more than 330 million people every month, making it the number five most-popular website in the world.

Since joining the Wikimedia Foundation in summer of 2007, Gardner has relocated the organization to San Francisco, more than doubled its annual revenues, supported a 21% increase in readership, and instituted ambitious new programming goals to increase reach, quality and participation.

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.

Gardner 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.