Friday May 09, 2008

Biography 
Madelaine Drohan has covered business and politics in Canada, Europe and Africa in the last 30 years. Twelve of those years were spent at The Globe and Mail, first as a business reporter, then European correspondent and finally economics columnist. She is currently the Ottawa correspondent for The Economist and also writes for the Economist Intelligence Unit. She was awarded a Reuters Fellowship at Oxford University in 1998, and the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism in 2001. She was a 2004-2005 Media Fellow at the Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership and the 2004-2005 Journalist in Residence at Carleton University. 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. For further details, see www.madelainedrohan.com.

