Diane Francis

Francis was born in Chicago, Illinois[2] on 14 November 1946. She immigrated to Canada in 1966 and was naturalized Canadian citizen.[3] She is married and has two adult children.[4]

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 its 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, Kyiv Post as well as newspapers around the world. She is a broadcaster, speaker and author of ten books on Canadian socio-economic subjects.[1]

Francis is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington DC, a contributor to American Interest in Washington DC and Distinguished Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Toronto.[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 at the Saint Mary's University (1997),[8][9] and an Honorary Doctorate at Ryerson University (2013[10]).

• Merger of the Century: Why Canada and America Should Become One Country (2013), HarperCollins
• Who Owns Canada Now (2008), HarperCollins
• Immigration: The Economic Case (2002), Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55263-532-5
• Underground Nation: The Secret Economy And The Future Of Canada (2002), Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55013-612-7
• BRE-X: The Inside Story - The Stock Swindle That Shocked The World (1998), Seal Books, ISBN 1-55013-913-4
• Fighting for Canada (1996), Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55013-796-4
• A Matter of Survival: Canada In The 21st Century (1993), Key Porter Books
• The Diane Francis Inside Guide to Canada's 50 Best Stocks (1990), Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55013-218-0
• Contrepreneurs (1988), Macmillan of Canada, ISBN 0771599153
• Controlling Interest - Who Owns Canada (1986), Macmillan Publishers, ISBN 0-7715-9744-4[2]

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