Howard Green

Howard Green is a three-time bestselling author who spent more than three decades in broadcasting. In addition to writing books, Green is an executive presentation coach, assisting leaders in developing and honing public speaking skills. One of the founding team at Business News Network in Canada (now BNNBloomberg), he anchored from the channel's first day in 1999 until mid-2014, conducting approximately 14,000 interviews and hosted BNN's flagship show, Headline with Howard Green. On Headline, he interviewed everyone from Alan Greenspan to Tony Blair to Mark Carney to Larry Fink---not to mention an endless number of North American CEOs, decision-makers, and market players. 

In 2021-22, he hosted Connexion with Howard Green, a twelve-part video and podcast interview series with the Toronto Star. In January 2013, Green released his first book, Banking on America: How TD Bank Rose to the Top and Took on the USA, published by HarperCollins. It was an immediate bestseller and was released in the United States in paperback in May 2014. Alongside Charles Bronfman, Green co-authored his second book---Distilled: A Memoir of Family, Seagram, Baseball and Philanthropy, again under the imprint of HarperCollins. 

It was published in October 2016 and was a Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestseller and an instant bestseller on Amazon. In 2017, Distilled was named a National Business Book Award finalist. In September 2018, Green's third book, Railroader: The Unfiltered Genius and Controversy of Four-Time CEO Hunter Harrison, was published and became an immediate number-one national bestseller. In 2019, it was named a National Business Book Award finalist. Bill Gates posted Railroader on his blog as one of the books he read in 2019 and Warren Buffett referenced the book at Berkshire Hathaway's Annual Meeting. Green narrated the audiobook versions of both Distilled and Railroader.

He is also a prize-winning documentary maker. He directed, wrote, and co-produced The Investigation of Swissair 111, a highly acclaimed 90-minute film for CBC and Swiss National TV that took viewers inside the four- and half-year inquiry into a plane crash that cost the lives of 229 people. For his work on the film, Green won the top television prize in Canada, The Gemini Award. He was also nominated for two Emmys for a U.S. version that aired on the PBS series, NOVA. Green's film has been broadcast worldwide.

In 2006, Howard Green took a one-year sabbatical from BNN at Columbia University in New York City. He was one of ten business journalists selected from around the world by Columbia for the prestigious Knight-Bagehot Fellowship, which provides an opportunity for those chosen to deepen their understanding of business.

Green began covering business in 1988. For ten years, he was a contributing producer and reporter at Venture, a weekly business magazine program on CBC-TV. He also reported from Canada for PBS' Nightly Business Report from 1989-94. From 1995-99, Green produced and reported for CBC's info technology and media series, Undercurrents, and from 1990 until 2004, he made nearly a dozen documentaries for which he received a number of awards. His work has been seen in some 50 countries.

As well, Green consults as a communications advisor and moderates conferences. He has a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa and a master's from Columbia University in New York. From 2013 until 2016, he served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Journalism Foundation. He is currently an Ambassador for Dyslexia Canada and a special advisor to the Founder and Chair.