Diane Francis is an award-winning columnist, bestselling author of ten books, investigative journalist, television commentator and screenplay writer. She is Editor at Large with the National Post in Canada and writes pieces for periodicals and websites including the Atlantic Council, Newsweek, Huffington Post U.S. Edition, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the World Post, Miami Herald and regularly for the New York Post and The Guardian. In addition she is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington DC within its Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center. She is also Adjunct Faculty with Singularity University in Mountain View California, a Distinguished Professor at Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management, a corporate director and has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. In 1991, she became Editor of Canada’s Financial Post, the first woman editor of a national daily newspaper in Canada, a position she held until the paper was sold in 1998. Her latest major projects are in software development, writing science fiction scripts with Hollywood producers and participation in a collaborative innovation team that is bringing emerging technologies to cities in emerging economies globally that will help solve chronic urban problems. She is an expert on business, Silicon Valley, future technology, geopolitics, energy and white collar crime. Not shy of controversy, her direct and forceful writing has established her international reputation in covering the personalities, trends and financial backstories that affect companies, individuals, governments and societies. She is an activist, entrepreneurial and journalistic disrupter.