Levon Sevunts is an award winning journalist. He currently works as the producer of The Link, a two-hour daily radio program at Radio Canada International, the international service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Montreal.
Born and raised in Armenia, Levon started his journalistic career in 1990, covering wars and civil strife in the Caucasus and Central Asia for a number of Armenian and Russian independent news outlets.
In 1992, after the government in Armenia shut down the TV program Levon was working for, he immigrated to Canada. He learned English and graduated from McGill University with a BA in Political Science.
In 1999, Levon started writing a foreign affairs column for the Montreal Gazette.
In November 2001, he received the Norman Webster Award for Foreign Reporting for his work in Afghanistan.
In 2002, Levon received the Queen Elizabeth II 50th Jubilee Medal and the Tekeyan Cultural Association Award for Excellence in Journalism.
His work has appeared in major Canadian and U.S. newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Toronto Star, The New York Times and The Washington Times.
In May and June 2005, Levon returned to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter with U.S. and Canadian troops.
In July and August 2004, Levon was on a freelance assignment in Chad and Darfur, Sudan for The Toronto Star and The Washington Times. He was the first Canadian journalist to report from the rebel-held part of Darfur.