Tony Burman

Tony Burman (born 13 June 1948) is a Canadian broadcaster, journalist and university official. Starting in the 1960s, Burman has worked as a journalist in print, radio, television, and online. For most of his 35-year career, he worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation where he eventually became editor in chief from 2002 to 2007. Later he joined Al Jazeera English as managing director of the Al Jazeera English from 2008 to 2010, later serving as Al Jazeera's chief strategic advisor for the Americas from 2010 to 2011. Starting in 2011, Burman served as the Velma Rogers Graham Research Chair at Ryerson University.

In October 2007, Burman received the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Gordon Sinclair Award for lifetime achievement in broadcast journalism. In October 2009, Arabian Business magazine named him the second most influential non-Arab in the Arab world. Then, in November 2009, the Canadian Expat Association also announced that he had been voted the third most influential Canadian living abroad, behind Michael J. Fox and Wayne Gretzky.