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Emmy Award-winning Producer/Director, CBC the fifth estate

Lysanne Louter is an International Emmy Award winning producer and director of documentaries with Canada's premiere investigative current affairs program, CBC's the fifth estate. She won numerous Canadian film and television awards for her documentary "Made in Bangladesh," about the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse that killed more than 1,100 people. Before joining the team at the fifth estate, Lysanne field produced news and current affairs for CBC's The National in London, Montreal, Toronto and locations around the world - including stories about Aung San Suu Kyi's election in Myanmar, the ruthless Abu Sayyaf in the Southern Philippines, the economic chill in China, ghost cities in Inner Mongolia and the housing crisis in the Canadian North. She lives in Toronto.