Peter Foster was born in London, England. Following an economics degree from Christ's College, Cambridge, he worked as a journalist for the Financial Times of London until 1976, when he immigrated to Canada to write for the Financial Post. He became a senior editor in 1977. He left the Financial Post in 1979 to write his first book, "The Blue-Eyed Sheiks," which became a number one non-fiction bestseller. He joined the new National Post in 1998 as a columnist in the FP Comment section. He has written ten books. His latest, How Dare You!, published in 2020, is a collection of his Post columns.