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13 Facts About Kirstine Stewart

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Kirstine Stewart was born on c 1968 and is a media executive and author who was formerly the Head of Shaping the Future of Media at the World Economic Forum.

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Kirstine Stewart attended Milton District High School, where she was named an Ontario Scholar at age sixteen.

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Kirstine Stewart earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in 1988, majoring in English with a minor in business.

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Kirstine Stewart is married to Zaib Shaikh, the former star of Little Mosque and the current consul general of Canada in Los Angeles.

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Kirstine Stewart became prominent as head of programming for Alliance Atlantis cable channels, including HGTV, Food Network, National Geographic and BBC Canada.

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Kirstine Stewart then joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2006 as executive director of programming for CBC Television.

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Kirstine Stewart led Twitter's expansion into Canada, and moved to New York where she oversaw North American partnerships across all verticals.

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On September 20,2016, Kirstine Stewart left her position at Twitter to join the content publisher Diply as their chief strategy officer.

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In 2018 Kirstine Stewart joined the World Economic Forum as Head of the Future of Media, working with the C Suite of various media and technology companies including Tencent, ByteDance, Meta and others.

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Kirstine Stewart's book Our Turn, published by Random House in 2015, was a national best-seller about leadership.

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Kirstine Stewart formerly sat on the board of Kognitiv, theScore, and WOW Entertainment.

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Kirstine Stewart was a member of the DMZ Advisory Council, and a mentor for theBIGPush.

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Kirstine Stewart is currently serving on the boards of Ingenium and the C100 and is Chair of Blink49 Studios.