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| Born | 14 November 1946 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Nationality | Canadian, US, British [1] |
| Occupation(s) | Author, editor, journalist |
| Known for | Editor, Financial Post |
Diane Marie Francis (born 14 November 1946) is a Canadian journalist, author and editor-at-large for the National Post newspaper since 1998. [2]
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]
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] ).
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