Carol Off is the host of CBC Radio’s flagship current affairs program, As It Happens, and a highly regarded television reporter.

A native of Winnipeg, Off graduated from the University of Western Ontario in London with an honours B.A. in English Literature. She spent five years freelancing, mainly for CBC Radio's Arts Report. In 1987, she became CBC Radio's Sunday Morning Ottawa correspondent where she covered the Meech Lake Accord, the U.S./Canada Free Trade Agreement and the 1988 federal re-election of Brian Mulroney's Conservatives. The following year, she became Quebec correspondent for CBC Radio's national news.

Off became an arts reporter for CBC Television's Prime Time News in 1993 before joining The National. Among her many accomplishments is a groundbreaking series on refugee women in Canada. The series was considered instrumental in changing Canadian policy and allowing large numbers of women to stay in Canada. It won a B'nai Brith Award, an international Gabriel Award, and an Investigative Journalism Citation of Merit. She also won first prize at the 1996 Hot Docs Festival for a documentary on moviemaking in Canada and a gold medal at the 1997 New York Television and Film Festival for an investigative report on Bosnian war criminals.

Off's coverage of the post-war reconstruction of the Balkans and the war crimes trial for Yugoslavia led her to write The Lion, the Fox and the Eagle: A Story of Generals and Justice in Yugoslavia and Rwanda. A national bestseller, the book focused on three Canadians: Louise Arbour, General Lewis MacKenzie and General Romeo Dallaire.

Non-Fiction:

Bitter Chocolate:
Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
(Random House Canada, 2006, The New Press, US, 2008, Australia, Queensland University Press; Korea, Alma Publishing Company; Japan, Eiji Press; Turkey, Iletisim Yayincilik; Taiwan, The Commercial Press)

• 10th Annual Canadian Culinary Book Award, 2007
  Cuisine Canada and the University of Guelph PDF
• Finalist, National Business Book Award, 2007
• Nominated,  Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing, 2006
  Writers' Trust of Canada

The Ghosts of Medak Pocket
(Random House Canada, 2004)

• Winner, 2005 Dafoe Foundation Prize

The Lion, the Fox and the Eagle:
A Story of Generals and Justice in Yugoslavia and Rwanda
(Random House Canada, 2000)

• Shortlisted, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
  Writers’ Trust of Canada