Chrystia Freeland

Chrystia Freeland [ kɹɪstʃə fɹi rural ː ] ( * 1968 in Peace River (Alberta) ) is a Canadian journalist and politician. After her journalistic career she won on 25 November 2013, the Liberal Party of Canada in Toronto (center) in a by-election the seat of retiring Bob Rae in the Canadian Parliament.

Life

Chrystia Freeland was born as the daughter of lawyer Donald Freeland, who already was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada also. After her studies, she earned a bachelor's at Harvard and Oxford in the master degree of Slavic Studies. She is married to the British reporter and author Graham Bowley and has three children. Since the summer of 2013, she lives in Toronto.

Activity

First Freeland worked as a freelance journalist for the Financial Times, The Washington Post and The Economist in Ukraine.

Later, she was deputy editor of the Financial Times in London and 1999 - 2001 by The Globe and Mail, last editor of Thomson Reuters Digital.

On 26 June 2013, Freeland turned to off and the politics of journalism by she applied for the candidacy of the Liberal Party for the spectrum released by Bob Rae's resignation seat in the Canadian Parliament. On September 15, she was nominated for and won on 25 November 2013, the election to the Canadian House of Commons with 49 % of votes.

Freeland's name is on the published by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 21 March 2014 List of persons to whom the entry to Russia is denied in connection with the Krimkrise.

Works

• 2000: Sale of the Century over Russia's transformation from socialism to capitalism.
• 2012: Plutocrats. The Rise of the New Global Super - Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else. ( German ): The super-rich. Rise and domination of a new global money elite. Westend Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt, 2013. ISBN 978-3864890451.