Madelaine Drohan is the Ottawa correspondent for The Economist. She also writes a weekly online column on Canadian economics for the Globe and Mail (Report on Business) website. For the last 30 years, she has covered business and politics in Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia.Her book, Making a Killing: How and why corporations use armed force to do business, was published in 2003 by Random House of Canada and in 2004 by The Lyons Press in the United States. It won the Ottawa Book Award and was short-listed for the National Business Book of the Year Award in 2004.
When possible, she conducts journalism workshops for media in Africa and Southeast Asia, with a special focus on business and investigative journalism.
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.
She lives in Ottawa, where she is a director on the following boards:
- North-South Institute, an independent research institute focused on international development,
- Partnership Africa Canada, which promotes sustainable human development in Africa.
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Training Workshop
Michael Rose, Prangtip Daorueng, Madelaine Drohan
Thailand 2006
Book Research
Offshore Oil Platform,
Niger Delta 2000.
Journalism Workshop
Fred Assimwe, Madelaine Drohan, David Okwembah,
Rwanda 2007