Francisco Toro

Francisco Toro is the Director of Content of the Group of Fifty. He is responsible for curating the content of our events ensuring members hear from the most engaging and stimulating speakers on earth at our gatherings. Francisco brings his two decades of experience as a writer, editor, and policy planner, in a career that has spanned eight countries in four continents.

Francisco graduated in Political Science from Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, and has a Master’s Degree in Social Policy Planning from the London School of Economics and a Graduate Diploma from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy.

His work has appeared in The Economist, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Reason, and the International Herald Tribune. He is currently a Global Opinion columnist for The Washington Post and an editor for Persuasion. He is based in Montreal, Canada.