# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/doug-saunders
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:42:28.774Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/doug-saunders"
name: "Doug Saunders"
slug: "doug-saunders"
description: "Douglas Richard Alan Saunders is a British and Canadian journalist and author, and columnist for The Globe and Mail, a newspaper based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He 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. During 2019 to 2021 he was a Berlin-based resident fellow with the Robert Bosch Academy, and he currently resides in Toronto."
tagline: "Canadian journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Doug_Saunders_(14434670596)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.674478666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/DougSaunders"
    handle:    "DougSaunders"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.dougsaunders.net/"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Saunders"
    title: "Doug Saunders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%BA_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "دوغ سوندرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "دوج سوندرز (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Saunders"
    title: "Doug Saunders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Saunders"
    title: "Doug Saunders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Saunders"
    title: "Doug Saunders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1251848"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump