Toronto Star economics columnist Scoffield departs for new role

Heather Scoffield, Ottawa bureau chief and an economics columnist at The Toronto Star, has left. Her tweet reads:

“I will miss my smart and passionate friends and colleagues in the media, but I am very much looking forward to the next stage of my career in public policy.

“Next week, I will join the Business Council of Canada as its SVP strategy, pursuing my work in finding common ground between business and politics in the hopes of spurring productive discussion and prosperity. I’m excited about the prospects.”

Previously, she worked at The Canadian Press, where she started as a reporter and copy editor in January 1994. She left in May 1996 to join Reuters as a reporter, where she covered Canadian mining companies, currency markets in Toronto, fiscal and monetary policy, economics, elections and national politics in Ottawa.

She then worked as a trade policy correspondent, fiscal policy correspondent and economics reporter at The Globe and Mail.

She rejoined The Canadian Press in September 2009 as a social policy reporter, and later served as Ottawa bureau chief.

Scoffield has a B.A. from Glendon Campus of York University and a M.A. from Western University.