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SATYA DAS,
42, is a columnist and foreign affairs writer for The Edmonton Journal
and Southam Newspapers of Canada. His most recent foreign assignments
have taken him to cover the elections in Ukraine, the rise of racist politics
in France, Suharto's twilight in Indonesia, Malaysia's limits to growth,
Japan's search for new directions, Hong Kong in the aftermath of Chinese
rule, the fundamental changes in the PRC, and Taiwan's efforts to maintain
its economic and political independence. He came to the foreign affairs
post, created especially for him, last August. Prior to that, he was an
editorialist and columnist with The Journal. During his 12 years on The
Journal's editorial board, Das wrote extensively about national, regional,
and local politics; economic and social issues and international relations.
Das has been a journalist
since 1974, with The Journal since 1977. He read economics, political
philosophy and French at the University of Alberta. Das used a 1991
media fellowship from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada to travel
extensively in Indonesia. In 1987, he was a Nuffield Fellow at Wolfson
College, Cambridge, where he studied international trade and aid policies.
He is a frequent commentator on French and English radio and TV. He
won the Citation of Merit for Editorial Writing at Canada's 1997 National
Newspaper Awards.
Das and his wife
Mita have two daughters, Silpi, 10, and Somya, 5.
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