Doug Saunders is the European Bureau Chief of the Globe and Mail, Canada’s largest and most respected national daily newspaper, and the author of a popular and award-winning weekly column devoted to the intellectual ideas and social developments behind the news. An experienced foreign-affairs writer who has won the Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize on four occasions, he has visited the unknown outskirts and fringes of cities in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and China. He lives in London with his wife, the writer Elizabeth Renzetti, and their two children.