Diane Francis
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Diane Francis | |
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| Born | 14 November 1946 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupations | Author, editor, journalist |
| Known for | Editor, Financial Post |
Diane Marie Francis (born 14 November 1946) is a Canadian-American journalist, author, and editor-at-large for the National Post newspaper since 1998.[1]
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[5] and the Financial Post's editor from 1991 to 1998, when it was taken over by the National Post and incorporated into it.[5] She has been a columnist and editor-at-large at the National Post since then.[1] 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.[1]
Francis was a distinguished professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Toronto until 2018.[6] She was a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center in autumn 2005[7] and has been a media fellow at the World Economic Forum.[6]
She holds an honorary Doctorate of Commerce from the Saint Mary's University (1997),[8][9] and an Honorary Doctorate from Ryerson University (2013[10]).
