Shachi Kurl is President of the Angus Reid Institute, Canada’s non-profit foundation committed to independent research. She works with public opinion data to further public knowledge and enhance the national understanding of issues that matter to Canada and the world.
Kurl is a regular contributor on CBC’s “Power and Politics”, and is often found offering analysis in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Globe and Mail.
She spent the first part of her career as political reporter and holds a degree in Journalism and Political Science from Carleton University. In 2022 returned to Carleton’s J-School as an Adjunct Research Professor, and in 2026 was appointed a Senior Research Fellow at the University Ottawa’s School of Political Studies.
Kurl is a seasoned election debate moderator, hosting the only televised leaders’ debates in the 2020 and 2024 provincial elections in B.C., and the English language federal leaders’ debate in 2021.
Kurl is a recipient of the prestigious Jack Webster Award for Best TV Reporting, and is currently the Chair of the Jack Webster Foundation. She is past National Co-Chair of the Canadian Cancer Society.