Diane Francis

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Diane Francis
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Francis in 2019
Born (1946-11-14) 14 November 1946 (age 77)
NationalityCanadian, US, British [1]
Occupation(s)Author, editor, journalist
Known forEditor, 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]

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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] ).

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