Doug Saunders

Who is Doug Saunders?

Douglas "Doug" Richard Alan Saunders is a British-Canadian journalist and author, and columnist for The Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper based in Toronto, Canada. He is the newspaper's international-affairs columnist, and a long-serving foreign correspondent formerly based in London and Los Angeles.

His journalism has won the National Newspaper Award, the Canadian counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on five occasions: in 1998, 1999, and 2000 for critical writing; and in 2006 and 2013 for column writing. In 2008, he was shortlisted for the award in international reporting, for a series of investigative articles on the state of the middle class around the world. He has also been shortlisted for the Canadian National Magazine Awards, in Public Issues.

He is the author of the book Arrival City, in which he visited 20 locations on five continents to study the effects of the final wave of rural-urban migration on the cities of the world.