Mutsumi Takahashi, BA 79, MBA 95, LLD 13, chief anchor at CTV News Montreal, was named a Montreal Citizen of Honour by the City of Montreal.
Danielle Gasher, BA 18, was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 North America 2025 list in the Hollywood and Entertainment category.
Richard Pound, BA 63, LLD 10, was named to the Olympic Order, the highest honour bestowed by the International Olympic Committee.
Alan Wainer, BComm 80, was named a fellow of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario.
Francis Scarpaleggia, MBA 84, won the 2024 Chair’s Award from the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies-Canada.
Phyllis Lambert, LLD 86, was named a Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Luminary.
Lucille Proulx, GrDip 86, BFA 93, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
Robert Frances, BComm 87, MBA 91, was a finalist for Wealth Professional’s CEO of the Year.
Ioanna Roumeliotis, BA 91, was a finalist for the 2024 Mindset Awards for Mental Health Reporting. She was also recently named co-host of CBC’s The Fifth Estate.
Serban Ghenea, BFA 92, was nominated for a 2025 Grammy Award in the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical category.
Jin-Me Yoon, MFA 93, won a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.
Two Concordians are among the latest appointees to the Order of Canada announced in December 2024 by Governor General Mary Simon. The country’s top honour recognizes exceptional contributions to the nation.
Sara O’Leary, BA 91, MA 94, won the Writers’ Trust Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People.
Benoît-Antoine Bacon, BA 95, received the Special Recognition of Achievement Award from Excellence Canada.
Marie-France Benoit, BComm 95, won a Canadian Women in Real Estate Award.
Johanna Mercier, MBA 97, was named among the Top 50 U.S. Women Chief Commercial Officers of 2024 by Women We Admire.
Frederick Kroetsch, BFA 99, premiered his first television series, Crip Trip, in Canada on AMI-tv and TVO.
Serge Godin, LLD 00, was bestowed an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Quebec 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Muthukumaran Packirisamy, PhD 00, was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Allison Katz, BFA 03, won the Gershon Iskowitz Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Sasha Kleinplatz, BFA 04, was awarded the Grand Sages Françoise Sullivan Prize in the Arts.
Clive Robertson, PhD 04, won a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.
Nicolas Schulman, BA 05, was named among Wealth Professional’s 2024 5-Star Advisors for Quebec.
Johanna Skibsrud, MA 05, was elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
Khadija Baker, BFA 07, MFA 13, PhD 24, is featured in Rewilding – the David Suzuki Foundation Arts Prize, a new exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.
Laurence Mathieu-Léger, BA 07, was a finalist for the 2024 Mindset Award for Mental Health Reporting.
Kevin McLeod, BA 11, was named one of Edmonton’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2024 by Edify Magazine.
Mishel Wong, BComm 12, was the recipient of a 2024 BMO Celebrating Women Grant Program.
Meryam Joobeur, BFA 13, won the Windsor International Film Festival prize for Canadian film.
The King Charles III Coronation Medals are awarded to people who have made a significant contribution to their community, province, territory or country, or have made outstanding achievements abroad.
Among the recent recipients are a number of Concordians - see them all here.
Gabriel Millard, BComm 13, was among Wealth Professional’s Top 40 Under 40 Rising Stars of 2024.
André Joseph Cordeiro, BA 14, received an inaugural Sachedina CTV News Fellowship.
Virginie Nolin, BFA 14, MFA 24, won the Iris Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the Gala Québec Cinéma 2024.
Charles Provost, BComm 14, was named one of Canada’s Best Financial Advisors and Professionals Under 40 by Wealth Professional.
Pierre Lassonde, LLD 16, was inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame.
Kim Thúy, LLD 17, received an honorary doctorate from Université du Québec à Montréal.
Orlane Panet, BComm 18, was named among the Top 25 Women of Influence by Women of Influence+, and named a Report on Business Changemaker.
Sabrina Reeves, MA 19, was the winner of the 2024 Quebec Writer’s Federation’s Concordia University First Book Prize, and the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.
Fatine-Violette Sabiri, BFA 20, won the Pierre-Ayt Prize for emerging artists. Laïla Mestari, BFA 17, was a finalist.
Guy Cormier, LLD 22, was bestowed the Adm.A. Emeritus distinction from the Ordre des administrateurs agréés.
Jennifer Flanagan, DSc 22, was named among the Top 25 Women of Influence by Women of Influence+.
Kessie Theliar-Charles, BFA 21, MA 23, was awarded the Price McIntosh Bursary from Library and Archives Canada.
Patrice Vermette, BA 23, was nominated for an Academy Award for Production Design for Dune: Part II.
Pedro Barbáchano, MFA 24, won the 2025 Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art. The fellowship supports two fine-arts grads — one from Concordia and one from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). This year’s winners take home $88,000 over two years — a top prize for emerging artists in Canada.
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