Doug Saunders

Doug Saunders is an author, journalist and consultant of Canadian and British citizenship. He is the international-affairs columnist for the newspaper The Globe and Mail and author of the books Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World (2011), The Myth of the Muslim Tide (2012) and Maximum Canada (2017). During 2019-2021 he was resident in Berlin as a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, and in 2022 designed a self-integration framework for urban migrants on behalf of the International Organization for Migration. He served as the Globe and Mail’s London-based European bureau chief for a decade, after having run the paper’s Los Angeles bureau, and has written extensively from East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East, North Africa and the Americas; he currently writes a weekly column devoted to the larger themes and intellectual concepts behind international news. He has won the National Newspaper Award, Canada’s counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on seven occasions (he was most recently honoured for Journalist of the Year and Best International Reporting in 2024) as well as the Schelling Prize for Architectural Theory, the Donner Prize and the National Library of China Wenjin Book Award. He was a co-designer of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale’s Germany pavilion, which was based on his book Arrival City . His current work examines the neighbourhood-scale manifestation of larger social and economic crises, with field work in seven countries.