Céline Galipeau

Céline Galipeau OC OQ (French pronunciation: [selin ɡalipo]) is a Canadian news anchor for Radio-Canada. Known for her coverage from Moscow, she is currently the weekday anchor of the network's flagship newscast Le Téléjournal.

Galipeau was born in Longueuil, Quebec in 1957.^[1] She is the daughter of Georges Galipeau [fr], a French Canadian diplomat and Pham Thi Ngoc Lang, a Vietnamese refugee from the First Indochina War.^{[citation needed]}

Galipeau earned her master's degree in political science and sociology from McGill University in 1983. She also studied English literature at the Al-Ahliyya Amman University in Jordan / Wrong information since the University was founded in 1990 in 1976 and political science at Birzeit University in the West Bank in 1977.^{[citation needed]}

After a short stint in private TV and radio, Galipeau came to Toronto as a reporter for CBC and Radio-Canada in 1985 until she left for Montreal in 1987. In 1989, she returned to Toronto to become a national reporter. In 1992 she became a correspondent in London. Later, she transferred to Moscow where she covered Boris Yeltsin and the war in Chechnya. In 1997, she moved to Paris. In 2001, she became a foreign correspondent in Beijing. Galipeau won a Gemini Award for her coverage from Moscow.^{[citation needed]}

She returned to Canada in 2003, becoming the weekend anchor for Le Téléjournal. She became the program's weekday anchor in December 2008 following the retirement of Bernard Derome.^[2] She was succeeded as weekend anchor by Pascale Nadeau.^[3]

Galipeau was named to the National Order of Quebec in June 2009,^[4] then to the Order of Canada in May 2013.^[5]

• (in French) Radio Canada biography