Journalist, editor, TV host, professor, businessman and public official, Keith Spicer is known in Canada as a passionate defender of national unity and minority rights. After an Ho...vizualizați mai multeJournalist, editor, TV host, professor, businessman and public official, Keith Spicer is known in Canada as a passionate defender of national unity and minority rights. After an Honours B.A. in modern languages and literatures and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto, he taught at several Canadian and American universities, including Univ. of Toronto, Univ. of Ottawa, Dartmouth College and UCLA. His articles have appeared widely in the Canadian press, and in the New York Times and Frances Le Monde diplomatique. He became editor of the daily Ottawa Citizen and later its European columnist.
He was Canadas first federal commissioner of official languages, chairman of the national broadcasting and telecom regulator (CRTC) and chairman of the Citizens Forum on Canadas Future. He founded the Media and Peace Institute of the UN-linked University for Peace, Costa Rica.
Since 1996 he has lived in Paris, where he taught at the Sorbonne, served on government new-media committees, and worked as an associate of Ernst & Young. He is a member of the editorial board of Paris-based Ilissos, a centre-right political and economic newsletter.
Father of three adult children, grandfather of three girls, and matre dhtel of a cat named after French prime minister Pierre Mends France, Spicer divides his time between Paris and Ottawa.vizualizați mai puține