David Walmsley is the Globe and Mail’s editor-in-chief and current President of the World Editors Forum.

He is the creator of World News Day, a global day of education involving more than 800 newsrooms on five continents explaining the role of journalism and how it can make the world a better place.

Under his editorship, The Globe and Mail has won the annual Canadian Michener Award for meritorious public service journalism five times as well as dominated the annual National Newspaper Awards.

David is the co-creator, with Prof. Anthony Feinstein, of the Toronto Moral Injury Scale for Journalists; the world’s only psychometric scale for detecting moral injury in journalists.

He is the executive producer of two recent documentaries – Nike’s Big Bet, and Shooting War, about conflict photographers.

David is a trustee of the Arthur F Burns Fellowship and sits on the steering committee of the Sir Harold Evans Fellowship for Investigative Journalism. He continues to investigate the RAF Chinook helicopter crash in Scotland in 1994 that killed all on board.