Susanne Craig

Susanne Craig, UCalgary alumna (BA ’91)
Award winning investigative reporter

UCalgary alumna Susanne Craig, is an investigative reporter at The New York Times. She writes about the intersection of money and politics and, for the past three years, has been covering President Donald Trump and his finances. She was the reporter who, in 2016, was mailed pages of Mr. Trump's 1995 tax returns and was one of the authors of the investigation The Times published in 2018 that found the president received hundreds of millions of dollars from his father, some of it through fraudulent tax schemes. Previously, Craig was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal. She has also worked at several Canadian papers, including The Globe and Mail and The Calgary Herald.

Craig has won numerous awards for her work. This year, she was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize and George Polk award for her role in the investigation into Trump’s fraudulent tax schemes. In Canada, she is the recipient of the National Newspaper Award for a series she wrote on insider trading.

She was born and raised in Calgary and is a graduate of the University of Calgary. She got her start in journalism at The Gauntlet, the university's student newspaper.