Chrystia Freeland

Chrystia Freeland is the Canadian Member of Parliament for the riding of Toronto Centre. After starting as a Ukraine-based stringer for the Financial Times, Washington Post, and The Economist, she went on to do many jobs at FT, including deputy editor, UK news editor, Moscow bureau chief, Eastern Europe correspondent, editor of its weekend edition, editor of FT.com, and US managing editor. From 1999 to 2001, she was deputy editor of The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. In 2010, Freeland joined Thomson Reuters as editor-at-large, where she most recently worked as managing director and editor of consumer news. She is the author of “Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else” (2012), a New York Times bestseller that won the National Business Book Award and the Lionel Gelber Prize in 2013. She is a co-chair of the Liberal Party’s Economic Advisory Council and the party’s critic for international trade.