Madelaine Drohan is an award-winning author and journalist who has covered business and politics in Canada, Europe and Africa during a twenty-five-year career. Her work appears in The Economist, Walrus Magazine, The Globe and Mail, and The Toronto Star, among other publications. She has worked for The Globe and Mail, as a foreign correspondent and columnist, The Financial Post, Maclean’s and The Canadian Press. 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. She is a member of the board of The North-South Institute, an independent research institute focused on international development, and of the Media & Democracy Group, which promotes good governance through a stronger media in emerging democracies. Whenever 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 is a 2004-2005 Media Fellow at the Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership and the 2004-2005 Journalist in Residence at Carleton University of Ottawa. She lives in Ottawa.