Diane Francis
Diane Francis | |
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Nationality | Canadian, American, British[1] |
Occupation(s) | Author, editor, journalist |
Known for | Editor, Financial Post |
Diane Marie Francis (born 1946) is an American-born British-Canadian journalist, author and editor-at-large for the National Post newspaper since 1998.[2] She is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., specializing in Eurasia policy and political issues. Since 2021, she has published a Substack newsletter twice a week.
Background
Francis was born in Chicago, Illinois,[3] on 14 November 1946. She immigrated to Canada in 1966 and became a naturalized Canadian citizen.[4] She is married and has two adult children.[5]
Career
Francis was a reporter and columnist with the Toronto Star from 1981 to 1987, then a columnist and director with the Toronto Sun, Maclean's and the Financial Post in 1987[6] and its editor from 1991 to 1998, when it was taken over by the National Post and incorporated into it.[6] She has been a columnist and editor-at-large at the National Post since then.[2] She is also a regular contributor to the Atlantic Council, New York Post, the Huffington Post, and the Kyiv Post, as well as newspapers around the world. She is a broadcaster, speaker and author of ten books on Canadian socioeconomic subjects.[2]
Francis is a distinguished professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Toronto.[7] She was a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center in autumn 2005[8] and has been a media fellow at the World Economic Forum.[7]
She holds an honorary Doctorate of Commerce from the Saint Mary's University (1997),[9][10] and an Honorary Doctorate from Ryerson University (2013[11]). In 2019, she received the Tryzub Award as a Friend of Ukraine for her decades of work and anti-corruption activism in that country.
Bibliography
- Merger of the Century: Why Canada and America Should Become One Country (2013), HarperCollins
- Who Owns Canada Now (2008), HarperCollins
- Immigration: The Economic Case (2002), Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55263-532-5
- Underground Nation: The Secret Economy and the Future of Canada (2002), Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55013-612-7
- BRE-X: The Inside Story – The Stock Swindle That Shocked The World (1998), Seal Books, ISBN 1-55013-913-4
- Fighting for Canada (1996), Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55013-796-4
- A Matter of Survival: Canada in the 21st Century (1993), Key Porter Books
- The Diane Francis Inside Guide to Canada's 50 Best Stocks (1990), Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55013-218-0
- Contrepreneurs (1988), Macmillan of Canada, ISBN 0771599153
- Controlling Interest – Who Owns Canada (1986), Macmillan Publishers, ISBN 0-7715-9744-4[3]
References
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnjYfXCPZjc
- ^ a b c "Official biography". dianefrancis.com. Archived from the original on 31 January 2010. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
- ^ a b "Controlling interest : who owns Canada? / Diane Francis (ResAnet record)". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 28 December 2009.
- ^ "Francis, Diane (Marie) 1946- | Encyclopedia.com". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
- ^ Diane Francis, dianefrancismylife blog, Diane Francis' Life, 4 February 2006
- ^ a b Financial Post, Diane Francis, retrieved 31 January 2019
- ^ a b "Diane Francis – bio – CEO Outlook – Ryerson University". ryerson.ca. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
- ^ Harvard University, Former Fellows and Visiting Faculty, retrieved 24 August 2010
- ^ http://library2.smu.ca/bitstream/handle/01/25031/convocation_1997_fall.pdf#page=15 [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Diane Marie Francis | the Patrick Power Library | Saint Mary's University".
- ^ "Past Honorary Doctorates". Ryerson University. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
External links
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- 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
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- Toronto Metropolitan University faculty
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