Rita Trichur is an award-winning journalist. She is a Senior Business Writer and Columnist in the Report on Business. Her previous roles at The Globe and Mail include Senior Editor, Financial Services Editor, and Canadian business columnist for the Report on Business Magazine. Rita returned to Globe in July 2016 after spending about 2 ½ years as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal’s Canada bureau. She primarily covered domestic banks and insurance companies from Toronto, but also wrote a variety of other stories about Canada for the U.S. newspaper. Prior to WSJ, Rita spent more than three years at the Globe, initially working as a general assignment reporter in the Report on Business before covering the telecom beat. Rita has also covered financial services and economics for the Toronto Star, and has held various roles at the Canadian Press and the Ottawa Sun. She got her first byline at age 6 when the Toronto Star published her short story about a fish-stealing cat and paid her $10. Rita, who also speaks French, was born in Toronto. She has a Bachelor of Journalism and Political Science and a M.A. in Canadian Studies – both from Carleton University in Ottawa.

David M. Shribman became executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on February 3, 2003. He came to Pittsburgh from The Boston Globe where he was assistant managing editor, columnist and Washington bureau chief. He now teaches at the Max Bell School of Public Policy.

Mr. Shribman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his coverage of Washington and the American political scene. He writes a weekly column, "My Point," syndicated throughout the United States, and a biweekly column for the Globe and Mail.

A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, he graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College with a degree in history and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He did graduate work in European and African history at Cambridge University, England, as a Reynolds Scholar.

He served as national political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, covered Congress and national politics for The New York Times and was a member of the national staff of The Washington Star. A native of Salem, Massachusetts, he began his career at The Buffalo Evening News, where he worked on the city staff before being assigned to the paper's Washington bureau.

Martin “Marty” Baron was executive editor of The Washington Post from Jan. 2, 2013, through Feb. 28, 2021. He oversaw The Post’s print and digital news operations. During his tenure as executive editor the newsroom grew from 580 to almost 1,000 journalists. Baron-led newsrooms won 18 Pulitzer Prizes, including 11 at The Post. The Post during his tenure won four times for national reporting, twice for explanatory reporting and once each for investigative reporting, criticism, feature photography and public service.

The public service prizes were awarded in recognition of revelations of secret surveillance by the National Security Agency and the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Previously, Baron had been editor of the Boston Globe. During his 11½ years there, the Globe won six Pulitzer Prizes — for public service, explanatory journalism, national reporting and criticism. The Globe was awarded the public service prize in 2003 for its investigation into a pattern of concealing clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church, coverage portrayed years later in the Academy Award-winning movie “Spotlight.” Before the Globe, Baron held top editing positions at the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Miami Herald.

Under his leadership, the Miami Herald won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for its coverage of the raid to recover Elián González, the Cuban boy at the center of a fierce immigration and custody dispute. He began his journalism career at the Miami Herald in 1976 as a state reporter and later as a business writer. In 1979, he moved to the Los Angeles Times, where he became business editor in 1983; assistant managing editor for page-one special reports, public opinion polling and special projects in 1991; and, in 1993, editor of the newspaper’s Orange County Edition. In 1996, Baron went to the New York Times, where he became associate managing editor for night news operations in 1997. He was named executive editor at the Miami Herald at the start of 2000. During his time at The Post, Baron became a leading defender of the First Amendment and the role of journalists in society, famously saying, "We are not at war … we are at work." He was born and raised in Tampa.

Adrian has been based in the U.S. since January 2017, with reporting trips here the year before that.

His coverage has included everything from the Capitol riot to the failed pandemic response to anti-racism protests; two presidential elections, two impeachments and two inaugurations. He has also done deep-dives on voter suppression in Wisconsin, demographic sea change in Georgia, immigration politics in Pennsylvania, the country's unequal healthcare system in rural Virginia, and climate change in Michigan and Louisiana.

U.S.-Canada bilateral relations are a frequent focus. During the renegotiation of NAFTA and the continental trade war, he reported extensively on the talks themselves, and spent time in Mexico and the U.S. Midwest to understand the ground-level effects of free trade. Previously, he covered Ontario provincial politics in The Globe's Queen's Park bureau for four years. Before that, he was a general assignment reporter on the Toronto desk.

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 Jackie Calmes is an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times in Washington, D.C. Before joining The Times in 2017 as White House editor, she worked at the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, covering the White House, Congress and national politics. She served as the chief political correspondent and chief economic correspondent at each paper. In 2004, she received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Reporting on the Presidency. Calmes began her career in Texas covering state politics and moved to Washington in 1984 to work for Congressional Quarterly. She was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. She is the author of “Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court.

Christine Cooper is the Executive Vice-President & Head of BMO Commercial Bank, Canada. She leads a talented team committed to providing innovative financial solutions and best-in-class relationship management for commercial clients. The team works holistically with companies to provide an integrated suite of commercial debt products, treasury and payment solutions, deposit products and services, M&A advisory, mezzanine finance, and equity. BMO Commercial Bank has been named Best Commercial Bank in Canada by World Finance for the last nine consecutive years.
Christine has a proven track record of success in the financial services industry with over 30-years of experience. She joined BMO in 2006 and has delivered results across the business with executive positions in retail, commercial, and corporate areas working regionally on both the east and west coasts as well as nationally.
Christine serves on the Board of BMO Life Insurance Company, BMO Life Assurance Company, and BMO Capital Partners Inc. In all her roles, Christine is an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion across the industry. She is a voting member of the BMO EMpower Impact Equity Fund Investments Committee, a dedicated fund specifically for black, Latinx, and women-owned businesses. She is also a founding executive sponsor for BMO Mosaic, an enterprise-wide resource group dedicated to including, developing, and supporting employees who are visible minorities and newcomers to Canada.