CEO of the Year (Indigenous Broadcasting) – Winnipeg 2024
Monika Ille is a member of the Abenaki First Nation of Odanak, Canada. Over the course of 30 years in the broadcasting industry, she has worked for a broad range of organizations, including the Société Radio-Canada, the National Film Board of Canada, the Assembly of First Nations and Quebec Native Women. Monika brought her strong creative vision to APTN in 2003 and for many years, she served as the Head of Programming. In 2019, she was appointment as CEO. Monika sits on various boards and is also an industry adjudicator on the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. In 2022 Monika received the Desautels Management Achievement Award from McGill University and was named Playback’s Executive of the Year. In 2023, The Globe and Mail listed Monika as one of the 25 most influential people in Canadian television. Recently, she appeared on The Hollywood Reporter’s first list of Canada’s most powerful women in entertainment.
