10 Facts About Doug Saunders

Douglas Richard Alan Saunders was born on 1967 and is a British and Canadian journalist and author, and columnist for The Globe and Mail, a newspaper based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Doug Saunders is the newspaper's international-affairs columnist, and a long-serving foreign correspondent formerly based in London and Los Angeles, and is the author of three books focused on cities, migration and population.

Doug Saunders is currently a Berlin-based resident fellow with the Robert Bosch Academy.

Doug Saunders briefly worked as an editor for the left-leaning This Magazine.

Doug Saunders moved to London to become the paper's European Bureau Chief in 2004.

Doug Saunders is married to the writer Elizabeth Renzetti and lived in Toronto until 2019, when he moved to Berlin to become a Richard von Weizsacker Fellow with the Robert Bosch Academy.

Doug Saunders has won the National Newspaper Award on five occasions: in 1998,1999, and 2000 for critical writing; and in 2006 and 2013 for column writing.

Doug Saunders has been shortlisted for the Canadian National Magazine Awards, in Public Issues.

Doug Saunders's works have been influential in the fields of urban planning and architecture.

Doug Saunders was a co-designer of the Germany pavilion in the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale; the pavilion was designed as a building-sized illustration of Saunders' book Arrival City.