Ian Alexander returned to his roots on the West Coast in 2007, after a 25-year career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto, where he worked in Radio, Television and Digital Media as an on-air host and programming leader in the classical music area, and later as a senior executive at the corporate level. For six years, he hosted the nightly concert program Arts National on CBC Stereo.
Since leaving the CBC, Ian has worked extensively as a consultant, trainer and facilitator, both in Canada and abroad, specializing in strategic planning, organizational development and communications counsel in the not-for-profit sector. He has worked with numerous arts and culture organizations in Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto and elsewhere.
Ian co-chairs the very active Music Committee of Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, which recently entered into a new collaboration with EMV. He was the community representative on the search committee for the new Music Director of the Victoria Symphony. He has known Angela Hewitt for over thirty years.