尊敬的克里斯蒂亚·弗里兰是加拿大副总理兼财政部长。Freeland女士于2013年7月首次当选多伦多中心议员。她于2015年10月当选罗斯代尔大学议员，并于2019年10月再次当选。2015年至2017年，Freeland女士担任加拿大国际贸易部长，监督加拿大与欧盟自由贸易协定(CETA)的成功谈判。2017年1月至2019年11月，她担任加拿大外交部长。在此期间，她是世界各地民主、人权和多边主义的主要倡导者。作为外交部长，她领导并成功完成了加拿大、墨西哥和美国之间《北美自由贸易协定》(NAFTA)的重新谈判。2019年11月，弗里兰女士被任命为加拿大副总理兼政府间事务部长。她以这一身份领导了加拿大联合应对2019冠状病毒病大流行的行动。她于2020年8月被任命为财政部长。 An esteemed journalist and author, the Deputy Prime Minister was born in Peace River, Alberta. She was educated at Harvard University before continuing her studies on a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford. After launching her career in journalism as a Ukraine-based freelance correspondent for the Financial Times, The Washington Post, and The Economist, Ms. Freeland went on to various roles at the Financial Times of London. She then served as deputy editor of the Toronto-based Globe and Mail between 1999 and 2001, before returning to the Financial Times as deputy editor and then as United States managing editor. In 2010, she joined Canadian-owned Thomson Reuters. She was a managing director of the company and editor of consumer news when she decided to return home and enter politics in 2013. Ms. Freeland has written two books: Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution (2000); and Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (2012). Plutocrats has been an international best-seller and won the Lionel Gelber Prize and National Business Book Award. In 2018, the Deputy Prime Minister was recognized as Foreign Policy's Diplomat of the Year. She was also awarded the Eric M. Warburg Award by Atlantik-Brücke, for her achievements in strengthening transatlantic ties. In 2020, she was awarded Freedom House’s Mark Palmer Prize, in recognition of her years of work in championing democracy and human rights. She is a member of the Forum's Board of Trustees