Chrystia Freeland

Chrystia Freeland at the "The Power and Pitfalls of Popular Media?" session during the India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, India

Chrystia Freeland (born 1968 in Alberta, Canada) is the Global Editor-at-Large of Reuters news since March 1, 2010, having formerly been the United States managing editor at the Financial Times, based in New York City. Freeland received her undergraduate education from Harvard University, going onto St Antony's at University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.^[1] She attended the United World College of the Adriatic,^[2] Italy, 1984-86.

A Ukrainian-Canadian,^[3] Freeland has worked in Kiev, Moscow, London, Toronto and currently in New York. She is the author of Sale of the Century, a 2000 book about Russia's journey from communism to capitalism.^[1]

She lives in New York City with her husband and their two daughters.

She has appeared four times as a panelist on Real Time With Bill Maher, on February 26, 2010, January 14, 2011, May 27, 2011, and July 15, 2011.^[4] She has also appeared on The McLaughlin Group, The Dylan Ratigan Show, Imus in the Morning and The Colbert Report. Currently, she is periodically standing in for Arianna Huffington as a panelist on public radio's political debate program, "Left, Right & Center", produced by KCRW. (Huffington recently was named president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, a newly created unit of AOL, and at least for the time being is unable to appear every week.)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Chrystia Freeland." The Financial Times biography. 3 Feb 2004; 26 May 2007.
2. ^ http://www.uwc.org/gp_cfreeland
3. ^ "2000:The Year in Review." Ukrainian Weekly.
4. ^ http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher/index.html HBO: Real Time with Bill Maher

External links

• [1]
• Announcement of Freeland's "Reuters" appointment
• Chrystia Freeland's Web Page at Financial Times

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Name	Freeland, Chrystia
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Date of birth	1968
Place of birth	Alberta, Canada
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