Peter Foster

Peter Foster was born and educated in England, where he studied economics at Cambridge. He worked for the Financial Times of London before immigrating to Canada in 1976 to write for the Financial Post, where he became a senior editor.

He has written ten books:

The Blue-Eyed Sheiks: The Canadian Oil Establishment (1979)

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices: Canada’s Superbureaucrats and the Energy Mess (1982)

Other People’s Money: The Banks, the Government, and Dome (1983)

From Rigs to Riches: The Story of Bow Valley Industries (1985)

The Master Builders: How the Reichmanns Reached for an Empire (1986)

Family Spirits: The Bacardi Saga: Rum, Riches and Revolution (1990)

Self-Serve: How Petrocan Pumped Canadians Dry (1992)

Towers of Debt: The Rise and Fall of the Reichmanns (1993)

Why We Bite the Invisible Hand: The Psychology of Anti-Capitalism (2014)

How Dare You!: Exposing the Global Governance Agenda (2020)

The Blue-Eyed Sheiks was a number one Canadian non-fiction bestseller. Self-Serve won Canada’s National Business Book Award. Peter's magazine journalism has won National Magazine Awards for subjects as diverse as Moscow McDonald’s and oil exploration in the Beaufort Sea.

Since 1998, he has been writing an editorial column for the National Post. He has a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Calgary-based Petroleum History Society. He is a recipient of the Economic Education Prize from the Montreal Economic Institute, and his columns have twice been shortlisted for the international Bastiat Prize.

Peter lives in Toronto.