{"id":16230,"date":"2025-12-09T12:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/nacs-new-president-ceo-is-annabelle-cloutier\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:16:03","slug":"nacs-new-president-ceo-is-annabelle-cloutier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/nacs-new-president-ceo-is-annabelle-cloutier\/","title":{"rendered":"NAC\u2019s new president, CEO is Annabelle Cloutier"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-67535\">\n<div>\n<header>      <\/header>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/thegitchemanitou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/67535-nacs-new-president-ceo-is-annabelle-cloutier.jpg\" alt=\"nac\u2019s-new-president,-ceo-is-annabelle-cloutier\" decoding=\"async\"><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span>NAC\u2019s new president, CEO is Annabelle Cloutier<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>OttawaThe National Arts Centre has promoted Annabelle Cloutier to president and CEO, saying she is the first francophone woman to hold those roles.1st francophone woman to lead Ottawa institutionCBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Dec 09, 2025 7:41 AM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 2 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.The National Arts Centre in Ottawa in November 2021. (Olivier Plante\/CBC)The National Arts Centre (NAC) has promoted Annabelle Cloutier to president and CEO, saying she is the first francophone woman to hold those roles.Cloutier has been with the NAC since 2018, working as executive strategy and communications director and corporate secretary to the board. She worked on the downtown Ottawa centre\u2019s 50th anniversary and the launch of its Indigenous theatre, according to an NAC news release.Before that, she worked in the governor general\u2019s office and at francophone cultural institutions such as the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration culturelle canadienne-fran\u00e7aise.Previous president and CEO Christopher Deacon officially retired last week.\u201cAnnabelle is the kind of arts leader Canada needs for these times, bringing vision, energy and imagination to one of Canada\u2019s most cherished cultural institutions,\u201d said Guy Pratte, chair of the NAC board of trustees and head of the selection committee.Annabelle Clouthier has been chosen as president and CEO of the National Arts Centre. (R\u00e9mi Th\u00e9riault\/National Arts Centre)\u201dMy immediate priority will be to engage with artists and arts leaders from across the country, to connect actively with our national audiences, and to collaborate with and support our wonderful NAC team,\u201d said Clouthier in the news release.\u201dTogether, we will ensure that the performing arts remain a vibrant and relevant cornerstone of our Canadian identity, as they should be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAC\u2019s new president, CEO is Annabelle Cloutier OttawaThe National Arts Centre has promoted Annabelle Cloutier to president and CEO, saying she is the first francophone woman to hold those roles.1st francophone woman to lead Ottawa institutionCBC News \u00b7 Posted: Dec 09, 2025 7:41 AM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,1047,1],"tags":[116,1046],"class_list":["post-16230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-ontario","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-ontario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}