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'{{COI|date=March 2013}} {{BLP primary sources|date=March 2019}} {{for|the sprinter|Diane Francis (athlete)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=May 2013}} {{Infobox person | name = Diane Francis | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing [[brackets]] --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_place = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], USA | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|Month DD, YYYY|Month DD, YYYY}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | nationality = {{CAN}} {{USA}} | other_names = | occupation = author, editor, journalist | known_for = editor, ''[[Financial Post]]'' }}{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2013}} '''Diane Francis''' is a US-born Canadian journalist, author and editor-at-large for the ''[[National Post]]'' newspaper since 1998.<ref name="officialbio"/> ==Background== Francis was born in [[Chicago]], Illinois.<ref name=CCControll>{{cite web | url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/wbin/resanet/itemdisp/i=6363337 | title=Controlling interest : who owns Canada? / Diane Francis (ResAnet record) | publisher=[[Library and Archives Canada]] | accessdate=2009-12-28 }}</ref> She is married and has two adult children.<ref>Diane Francis, dianefrancismylife blog, [http://dianefrancismylife.blogspot.com/ Diane Francis' Life], 4 February 2006</ref> ==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<ref name=FP/> and its editor from 1991 to 1998, when it was taken over by the ''[[National Post]]'' and incorporated into it.<ref name=FP>''Financial Post'', [http://www.financialpost.com/opinion/columnists/diane-francis.html Diane Francis], accessed 31 January 2019</ref> She has been a columnist and editor-at-large at the ''National Post'' since then;<ref name="officialbio">{{cite web |url=http://www.dianefrancis.com/bio.php |title=Official biography |accessdate=2009-12-18 |publisher=dianefrancis.com |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131025700/http://www.dianefrancis.com/bio.php |archivedate=31 January 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> her columns are widely cited, quoted and republished. She is also a regular contributor to the Atlantic Council, American Interest, The Kyiv Post as well as newspapers around the world. She is a broadcaster, speaker and author of ten books on business, white collar crime, geopolitics, concentration of economic power, Canadian socio-economic subjects.<ref name="officialbio"/> Francis is Distinguished Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at [[Ryerson University]] in Toronto.<ref name=RU>{{cite web|url=http://www.ryerson.ca/ceooutlook/dianefrancis/|title=Diane Francis - bio - CEO Outlook - Ryerson University|first=|last=|work=ryerson.ca|year=|accessdate=19 January 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527003538/http://www.ryerson.ca/ceooutlook/dianefrancis/|archivedate=27 May 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref> She is a Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council, an Executive Director with the Canada-US Law Institute, faculty with Singularity University, Advisory Council with the Hudson Institute's Kleptocracy Initiative. She was a Visiting Fellow at [[Harvard University]]'s Shorenstein Center in autumn 2005<ref>[[Harvard University]], [http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/fellowships/fellows_former_semester.html Former Fellows and Visiting Faculty], accessed 24 August 2010</ref> and has been a director of two public companies and charities as well as Media Fellow at the [[World Economic Forum]].<ref name=RU/> ==Bibliography== *''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'' (1989), McClelland-Bantam *''Controlling Interest - Who Owns Canada'' (1986), [[Macmillan Publishers]], {{ISBN|0-7715-9744-4}}<ref name=CCControll /> ==Notes== {{Reflist|group=notes}} ==References== <references /> ==External links== NATIONAL POST https://business.financialpost.com/category/diane-francis ATLANTIC COUNCIL https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/list/diane-francis AMERICAN INTEREST https://www.the-american-interest.com/v/diane-francis/ SINGULARITY UNIVERSITY HUB https://singularityhub.com/author/dfrancis/ TWITTER: @dianefrancis1 {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Francis, Diane}} [[Category:1946 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Canadian columnists]] [[Category:Canadian political writers]] [[Category:American expatriate writers in Canada]] [[Category:Canadian women journalists]] [[Category:National Post people]] [[Category:Canadian women in business]] [[Category:Writers from Chicago]] [[Category:20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers]] [[Category:21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers]] [[Category:American emigrants to Canada]] [[Category:Ryerson University faculty]] [[Category:Canadian newspaper editors]] [[Category:Women columnists]] [[Category:Women newspaper editors]] [[Category:20th-century Canadian women writers]] [[Category:21st-century Canadian women writers]] [[Category:Canadian business and financial journalists]] [[Category:Women business and financial journalists]] [[Category:Canadian women non-fiction writers]]'