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L. Ian MacDonald (born 1947) is a Canadian writer, broadcaster, and diplomat. == Biography == MacDonald graduated from Concordia University (Loyola) in 1969 with an honours degree in political science. He has been a columnist for the Montreal Gazette and the defunct Montreal Daily News, and has been a sessional lecturer at Concordia University. He wrote his first book in 1984, a bestseller that covered Brian Mulroney's rise from boyhood to Prime Minister of Canada. MacDonald served as chief speechwriter for Mulroney from 1985–88. He served as Minister of Public Affairs at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC from 1992–94. MacDonald has published four more books. most recently "Politics, People & Potpourri", selected by CBC as "one of the best political reads" of 2009. He writes frequently for Canadian newspapers, including ''The Montreal Gazette'' and ''Ottawa Citizen'', and broadcasts on radio and television. He served for 10 years from 2002-2012 as editor in chief of the magazine ''Policy Options'', published by the Institute for Research on Public Policy. He is now Editor and Publisher of ''Policy'' Magazine. He has two daughters--Grace, born in 1990, and Zara, born in 2009. He was enshrined in the Concordia University Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 as part of the Loyola College Warriors 1968 hockey team. Their cinderella story (15 win, 1 loss) season took them to the National Championships, where after beating #1 University of Toronto in double overtime, they lost in the University Cup final 5-4 to the University of Alberta. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「L. Ian MacDonald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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