Diane Francis
| Diane Francis | |
|---|---|
| Born | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Nationality |
 Canada  United States
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| Occupation | author, editor, journalist |
| Known for | editor, Financial Post |
Diane Francis is an American-Canadian journalist, author and editor-at-large for the National Post newspaper since 1998. In addition she is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington DC within its Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center. She is on the Advisory Council of the Hudson Institute's Kleptocracy Initiative. She is also Adjunct Faculty with Singularity University in Mountain View California, a Distinguished Professor at Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management and has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. In 1991, she became Editor of Canada’s Financial Post, the first woman editor of a national daily newspaper in Canada, a position she held until the paper was sold in 1998., She was previously the Editor of the Financial Post from 1991 to 1998, when it was taken over by the National Post and incorporated into it. She has been a columnist with the Financial Post since 1987 and her columns are syndicated. She also a regular contributor to the New York Post, the Huffington Post, a broadcaster, and author of ten books on political, geopolitical and socio-economic subjects. She is currently working on a science fiction feature-length screenplay with Hollywood producers.
Francis was born in Chicago, Illinois. She is married and has two adult children. She is a high school graduate.
Francis was a reporter and columnist with Maclean's Magazine, The Toronto Star from 1981 to 1987 and then became a columnist with the Financial Post in 1987 and its editor from 1991 to 1998, when it was taken over by the National Post and incorporated into it. She has been a columnist and editor-at-large at the National Post since then; her columns are widely cited, quoted and republished. She also a regular contributor to the New York Post, the Atlantic Council, the Huffington Post, a broadcaster, speaker and author of ten books on Canadian socio-economic subjects.
Francis is Distinguished Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Toronto. She was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center in autumn 2005 and has been a Media Fellow at the World Economic Forum. In 2013 and 2015, she served as a media advisor to graduate student teams at Singularity University in the NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley. In 2015, she became Adjunct Faculty with Singularity University and will participate in conferences and other projects such as mentoring teams in the institution's Global Challenges program.
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