Diane Marie Francis (born 14 November 1946) is a Canadian journalist, author and editor-at-large for the National Post newspaper since 1998.^[2]

Francis was born in Chicago, Illinois,^[3] on 14 November 1946. She immigrated to Canada in 1966 and became a naturalized Canadian citizen.^[4] She is married and has two adult children.^[5]

Francis was a reporter and columnist with the Toronto Star from 1981 to 1987, then a columnist and director with the Toronto Sun, Maclean's and the Financial Post in 1987^[6] and its editor from 1991 to 1998, when it was taken over by the National Post and incorporated into it.^[6] She has been a columnist and editor-at-large at the National Post since then.^[2] She is also a regular contributor to the Atlantic Council, New York Post, the Huffington Post, and the Kyiv Post, as well as newspapers around the world. She is a broadcaster, speaker and author of ten books on Canadian socioeconomic subjects.^[2]

Francis is a distinguished professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Toronto.^[7] She was a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center in autumn 2005^[8] and has been a media fellow at the World Economic Forum.^[7]

She holds an honorary Doctorate of Commerce from the Saint Mary's University (1997),^[9][10] and an Honorary Doctorate from Ryerson University (2013^[11]).

• Merger of the Century: Why Canada and America Should Become One Country (2013), HarperCollins
• Who Owns Canada Now (2008), HarperCollins
• Immigration: The Economic Case (2002), Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55263-532-5
• Underground Nation: The Secret Economy and the Future of Canada (2002), Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55013-612-7
• BRE-X: The Inside Story – The Stock Swindle That Shocked The World (1998), Seal Books, ISBN 1-55013-913-4
• Fighting for Canada (1996), Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55013-796-4
• A Matter of Survival: Canada in the 21st Century (1993), Key Porter Books
• The Diane Francis Inside Guide to Canada's 50 Best Stocks (1990), Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55013-218-0
• Contrepreneurs (1988), Macmillan of Canada, ISBN 0771599153
• Controlling Interest – Who Owns Canada (1986), Macmillan Publishers, ISBN 0-7715-9744-4^[3]