February 13, 2026
NEW YORK (February 13) — Today Bloomberg News announces the appointment of Chrystia Freeland as a contributor, effective immediately.
She will regularly appear on Wall Street Week and other Bloomberg Television programming, offering analysis, insight, and reporting on the intersection of economics and geopolitics. In addition, she will contribute essays to Bloomberg Weekend.
Freeland, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada, currently serves as Economic Advisor to the President of Ukraine and is the incoming Chief Executive Officer of the Rhodes Trust.
Wall Street Week, hosted by David Westin, airs Fridays at 6:00 PM ET on Bloomberg TV and WORLD channels on Sundays at 2pm ET. The program features compelling segments from around the world of capitalism, as well as exclusive interviews with leaders in business and finance.
Bloomberg Weekend provides Bloomberg subscribers globally with distinctive content beyond the working week. The section can be accessed via the consumer website, Bloomberg.com, the Bloomberg app, as well as on the Bloomberg Terminal.
BIO:
The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada, currently serves as Economic Advisor to the President of Ukraine and is the incoming Chief Executive Officer of the Rhodes Trust.
Chrystia was elected in five consecutive national elections and served as a Member of Parliament from 2013 to 2026. She also served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2019 to 2024.
From 2020 to 2024, Chrystia served as Minister of Finance, becoming the first woman in Canadian history to hold the position. Her stewardship during and after the COVID-19 pandemic protected jobs and businesses and delivered a historic soft landing for the Canadian economy, while preserving Canada’s AAA credit rating and securing the lowest debt and deficit ratios of any G7 country. She also advanced major social and investment priorities, including a national system of $10 a day daycare (Early Learning and Child Care, ELCC), the Green investment tax credit (ITC) program, and the Indigenous Loan program, supported Canada’s capital markets, and got the TMX pipeline built to the Pacific, diversifying Canada’s exports. During this period, she played a central role in the global response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, including freezing the assets of the Russian central bank to support Ukraine.
From 2019 to 2020, Chrystia served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, helping to lead Canada’s united response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
From 2017 to 2019, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia led the successful renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States and Mexico. As Canada’s top diplomat, she championed the global protection of human rights, a feminist foreign policy, the defence of democracy, and the importance of a rules-based international order.
From 2015 to 2017, as Minister of International Trade, Chrystia led the successful negotiation of a landmark free trade agreement between Canada and the European Union, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). She also signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Chrystia has received numerous international honours. In 2025, she received the Foreign Policy Association Medal for her defence of democracy and the rules-based international order. In 2020, she was awarded Freedom House’s Mark Palmer Prize for her leadership in advancing democracy and human rights. In 2018, she was named Foreign Policy’s Diplomat of the Year, and she also received the Eric M. Warburg Award from Atlantik-Brücke for strengthening transatlantic ties.
Before entering public service, Chrystia was a journalist, editor, and author. She reported from Ukraine as a stringer, writing for the Financial Times, The Economist, and The Washington Post. She was a senior editor at the Financial Times and worked at The Globe and Mail and Reuters. She is the author of two books, including Sale of the Century and Plutocrats, a bestseller and winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize.
Chrystia was born in Peace River, Alberta, Canada. She completed degrees at Harvard University and the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She is married, a mother of three, and speaks five languages.