Editing Avril Benoit

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'''Avril Benoît''' is the executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières in the United States (MSF-USA) (as of June 2019). Previously, Ms. Benoît served as Director of Communications and Fundraising with [[Médecins Sans Frontières]] (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders at its operational centre based in [[Geneva]], [[Switzerland]]. She is a Canadian former broadcaster best known for her radio programmes and documentaries on the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]. From 2006 to 2012, after two decades in journalism, she joined MSF in Canada as director of communications. She has worked as a humanitarian country director and project coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières, in [[Mauritania]], [[South Sudan]], [[Democratic Republic of Congo]] and [[South Africa]].

Benoît's documentaries from [[Kenya]], [[Burundi]], [[India]] and [[Brazil]] aired on [[CBC Radio One]]'s flagship show, ''[[The Current (radio program)|The Current]]''. Her hour-long television documentary ''Slum Cities: a Shifting World'' aired on ''CBC News: Correspondent''   on [[CBC Newsworld]]. In 2004-2005 she was a Southam Journalism Fellow at [[Massey College]], [[University of Toronto]]. Her graduate research focussed on [[human rights]], [[global governance]] and official [[development assistance]].

From 1999 to 2004, Benoît hosted and produced ''[[Here and Now (Toronto)|Here and Now]]'', CBC Radio One's newsmagazine weekday afternoons on [[CBLA-FM]] in Toronto.<ref>"Benoit to host afternoon radio show". ''[[Saskatoon StarPhoenix]]'', August 6, 1999.</ref> She co-hosted, with [[Michael Enright (broadcaster)|Michael Enright]], CBC Radio One's former flagship show ''[[This Morning (radio program)|This Morning]]'' from 1997 to 1999.<ref name=roughwaters>"CBC's This Morning rides rough waters". ''[[Saskatoon Star-Phoenix]]'', July 20, 1998.</ref> Before that she hosted an open-line show on [[CJAD (AM)|CJAD]] in Montreal and was a political commentator. Benoît anchored numerous breaking news programmes and election night specials.

Benoît's journalistic career included stints as a reporter, writer and host with CBC-TV; a reporter with CBC Radio in [[Ottawa]], [[Montreal]] and [[Quebec City]]; and a news anchor with the [[Canadian Forces]] Network in [[Germany]]. Her print background includes covering the 1990 presidential elections in [[Haiti]] for ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', and editing ''[[The Record (Sherbrooke)|The Record]]'' daily newspaper in [[Sherbrooke]].

Benoît is a bilingual native of Ottawa, Ontario and [[Mont-Tremblant, Quebec|Mont-Tremblant]], Quebec.

She is the niece of former Ottawa Mayor [[Pierre Benoit (Ontario politician)|Pierre Benoit]].

==References==
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==External links==
* Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders Canada [http://msf.ca/]
* Avril Benoît's article about refugees in South Sudan [https://web.archive.org/web/20150915040424/http://www.msf.ca/en/article/dispatches-avril-beno%C3%AEt-view-south-sudans-other-refugee-crisis]
* Avril Benoît's article in Policy Options [https://web.archive.org/web/20120501201620/http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/apr12/benoit_en.pdf]
* Avril Benoît's TV documentary entitled ''Slum Cities: A Shifting World'' [http://radio-canada.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Slum+Cities/1_3s5sx9gw] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220523/http://radio-canada.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Slum+Cities/1_3s5sx9gw |date=2016-03-03 }}

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