Keith Spicer is a journalist and writer who for 50 years has moved between media, government, business and academia. He has taught international relations at the University of Toronto, Dartmouth College, UCLA, the Sorbonne, and the UN-linked University for Peace, where he founded and ran for seven years the Media, Peace & Security Program.
For 14 years, he occupied senior positions in the Canadian government – as the nation’s first Commissioner of Official Languages, then as Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (counterpart of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission). A long-term resident of France, Spicer considers himself a "decaffeinated American" – a "typically undemonstrative Canadian fascinated in equal measure by America’s outrageous faults and inspiring virtues."