Madelaine Drohan

Madelaine Drohan is an award-winning author and former foreign correspondent who covered business and politics in Canada, Europe and Africa. She was Canada correspondent for The Economist magazine from 2006 to 2020 and European correspondent for The Globe and Mail from 1991 to 1999. Her book, Making a Killing: How and why corporations use armed force to do business, won the Ottawa Book Award and was short-listed for the National Business Book of the Year Award in 2004. She has held research fellowships with the Public Policy Forum (2015-2016), the Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership (2004-2005), and the Reuters Foundation at the University of Oxford (1998-1999). She is a former director of The North-South Institute, Partnership Africa Canada, and Transparency International Canada. She was the first woman to win the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) from Ryerson University in Toronto and a Master of Arts (History) from the University of Ottawa. She is currently writing a book on Benjamin Franklin and Canada. 

• Canadian public policy
• Businness and Politics in Canada, Europe and Africa

• "Does Serious Journalism Have a Future in Canada?", Public policy Forum, 2016
• "The 9 Habits of Highly Successful Ressource Economies: Lessons for Canada", Canadian International Council, 2012
• "Making a Killing: How and why corporations us armed force to do business", Random house, 2003