Thursday July 24, 2008
Biography 
Brian Milner is a member of The Globe and Mail's editorial board and the sports business columnist, writing about sports marketing, economic and labour issues. He began his journalism career as a sports and feature writer and editor in Canada, working at several newspapers before moving to Paris, where he spent far more than he earned. Anxious to replenish his bank account, Mr. Milner joined The Globe, where he has held a variety of editing and writing jobs.
Starting in the Report on Business, he advanced through a series of editing assignments before switching back to reporting. He covered international trade and investment, the automotive industry, media, the debt markets and banking and then spent two years as an associate managing editor in the ROB, before becoming The Globe's New York bureau chief in 1994. From his vantage point in the world's financial capital, he covered the greatest economic and stock market boom in modern history, as well as a raft of U.S. political, cultural and social topics.
Mr. Milner began writing a markets column in late 2000, upon his return from New York, and joined the editorial board in 2003. He started his current sports business column in 2004. He is the author of a best-seller, The Hidden Establishment (Viking, 1991), which profiled secretive, wealthy immigrants from the Far East and other parts of the world. He has also written a history of Toronto for a popular guide book and has ghost-written and edited books on economic, social and sports subjects. The best known is Shifting Gears (Harper Collins 1993), one of the first books to examine the impact of the technological boom on the economy.
From 1988 to 1994, he was the Canadian correspondent for International Reports of London, specializing in political, fiscal, trade and currency topics. He has been published in Barron's, Reader's Digest, Report on Business Magazine, Toronto Life, Cigar Aficionado, International Business, Korean Business and Tradepia of Japan. He is also a commentator on radio and television, with appearances on ROB-TV, CTV, TVO, CBC and the BBC, among others.
He holds degrees in political science (York University) and journalism (Carleton) and has studied both French and Japanese.
