L. Ian MacDonald


L. Ian MacDonald is a Canadian writer, broadcaster, and diplomat.

Biography

MacDonald graduated from Concordia University 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, "Mulroney: The Making of the Prime Minister", 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 five more books. all with McGill-Queen's Universiry press, most recently "Politics, People & Potpourri", selected by CBC as "one of the best political reads" of 2009, and "inside Politics", a collection published in 2018. He writes frequently for Canadian newspapers and news sites. Now Editor and publisher of "Policy" Magazine, a bi-monthly on Canadian politics and public policy, he was previously editor from 2002-2012, of Policy Options, published by the Institute for Research on Public Policy.
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. of which he was equipment manager Their cinderella story 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.

Major works