Education
London School of Economics. Carleton University.
London School of Economics. Carleton University.
Born in Sheffield, England and educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, Gray came to Canada in 1979. She worked for a number of years as a journalist, writing a regular column on national politics for Saturday Night and appearing regularly on radio and television discussion panels. She has also written for Chatelaine, The Globe and Mail, the National Post and the Ottawa Citizen.
Gray is an adjunct research professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, and holds honorary degrees from Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, the University of Ottawa and Queen"s University.
In 2004 she served on the jury for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2004, Gray appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Company Television series The Greatest Canadian advocating for Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada"s first Prime Minister.