Who Is Chrystia Freeland's Husband, Graham Bowley? Here's What We Know

Chrystia Freeland is the current deputy Prime Minister of Canada and the Minister of Finance.

She is an active member of the Liberal Party, representing the University-Rosedale in the House of Commons. She was appointed to the Cabinet after the 2015 federal election.

Freeland was described as one of the most prominent Cabinet ministers of Justin Trudeau's premiership and received the informal title of "Minister of Everything" by political commentators.

She was a part of the federal response to Canada's protest, leading to the first-ever invocation of the Emergencies Act. She also played a vital role in the Canadian response to the Russo-Ukrainian War, including sending aid to Ukraine and sanctions on Russia.

She was also a successful journalist for two decades before becoming a politician. 

Who Is Chrystia Freeland's Husband Graham Bowley?

Chrystia Freeland's husband, Graham Bowley, is a British writer and an investigative reporter for the New York Times.

The couple is the parents of three children; two daughters, Natalka and Halyna, and a son Ivan. The family, previously based in New York, currently resides in Toronto, Canada. 

According to his LinkedIn profile, Bowley graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Bristol in 1990. He then studied at the University of Oxford, graduating with a degree in Economics in 1993.

He was also a reporter for the Financial Times from 1994 to 2000. Since 2007, he has been an investigative reporter on The New York Times Culture desk.

Bowley traveled to a couple of countries for his news story. He reported in 2012 from Afghanistan for The Times and worked as a journalist in Britain and Germany.

He also covered topics such as the allegation against Bill Cosby and the formation of the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C. 

Graham Bowley is also an author who has written the book, No Way Down, recounting the events of the 2008 K2 Disaster, where 11 mountaineers from an international expedition perished in the second-highest peak on Earth.

The book was published by HarperCollins in 2010 and received widespread acclaim. 

Michael Kodas, author of High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed, praised the book as a gripping read about one of the worst modern mountaineering disasters.

Likewise, Norman Ollestad, author of Crazy for the Storm, wrote that the book is a refreshingly unadorned account of the brutality of climbing K2.

Bowley is active on Twitter and has over 6.6K followers on his account, @graham_bowley

Chrystia Freeland's Parents And Family

Canadian deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is the daughter of Donald Freeland and Halyna Chomiak.

Her father, Donald, was a farmer and a lawyer. He was also into politics as a Liberal party member. His mother was a Scottish war bride.

Likewise, her mother, Halyna, was a Ukrainian national who was also a lawyer. She ran for the New Democratic Party in Edmonton Strathcona in the 1988 federal election. Donald and Halyna divorced when Chrystia was nine, but she continued spending time with them.

Chrystia is quite famous on social media, amassing a considerable following. Her Twitter account, @cafreeland, has 318K followers, whereas her Instagram account, @chrystiafreeland, has 43K followers. Likewise, on Facebook, she has over 60K followers.

Chrystia Freeland Age And Education

Canadian politician Chrystia Freeland was born on August 2, 1968, in Peace River, Alberta. She is currently 54 years old. 

An activist from a young age, she organized a strike in the fifth grade to protest her school's enrichment classes.

She studied at Old Scona Academic High School in Edmonton, Alberta, for two years before going to Italy to attend the United World College of the Adriatic on a merit scholarship from the Alberta government to promote international peace and understanding.

She then attended Harvard University to study Russian history. She also studied at the University of Kyiv, Ukraine as an exchange student to learn Ukrainian, although she was already fluent. 

While at Kyiv, she worked with The New York Times journalist Bill Keller to document an unmarked mass grave site named the Bykivnia graves, where the Soviet secret police (NKVD) disposed of tens of thousands of dissidents. 

Chrystia would collect stories of locals who had witnessed trucks that used to be covered with puddles of blood on the road that predated the Hitler era, adding to the evidence that the site was the result of the Stalinist repression.

After some years, she moved to Londo in the summer of 1990 and worked as an intern for United Press International. She then completed a Master's degree in Slavonic studies at the University of Oxford in 1993. 

What Is Chrystia Freeland's Net Worth?

Chrystia Freeland is the current deputy Prime Minister of Canada and has an estimated net worth of $20 million.

The primary source of her income is her political career. As of 2022, the basic salary of the Deputy Prime minister of Canada is $279,900. Chrystia has been the deputy PM of Canada since November 2019, which means she has already earned over $10 million.

In 2015, she was the Minister of International Trade in his first Cabinet, appointed by newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 

Then in 2017, Freeland was appointed the Minister of Foreign Affairs. She had a successful tenure as the Minister of FA, ranked by Fortune Magazine as the 37th among the world's leading leaders in April 2019.

During the initial year of her political career, Freeland purchased a $1.3 million home, which also drew criticisms from the opposition party. 

Before her career as a politician, Freeland had a two-decade-long career as a journalist. She was the deputy editor for the Financial Times in London and later an editor for FT.com and UK News. She also served as the deputy editor for The Globe and Mail.

Later, she worked as the managing director of Thomson Reuters and the editor of Thomson Reuters Digital. Before that, she worked as the global editor-at-large of Reuters News. 

Freeland is also an author who has published two books: Sale of the Century: Russia's Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism (posted 2000) and Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (published 2012).

Plutocrats won the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize for non-fiction on foreign affairs and a New York Times bestseller. It was also named the National Business Book Award for the best Canadian business-related book.

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