Diane Marie Francis (born 14 November 1946) is a Canadian journalist, author and editor-at-large for the National Post newspaper since 1998.[2]
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] She publishes a twice-weekly newsletter on Substack about geopolitics, white collar crime, trends, technology, and business which is a best-seller and read in 106 countries.
Francis was a distinguished professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Toronto until 2018.[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]).
Bibliography
Merger of the Century: Why Canada and America Should Become One Country (2013), HarperCollins
