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. (After Huffington was named president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, a newly created unit of AOL, she stopped appearing every week.)