Rana Foroohar
Rana Foroohar is Global Business Columnist and Associate Editor at the Financial Times. She is also a Global Economic Analyst at CNN, covering the intersection of business, economics, politics, and foreign affairs. A coveted commentator for her top-level yet accessible analysis, Foroohar regularly speaks on the shifts occurring in globalization, the political economy, and the digital economy. She also offers real-time analyses on emerging markets, women in the workplace, education, and the disruption of big tech.
Rana Foroohar Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Global Business Columnist and Associate Editor
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Global Economic Analyst
Academic History
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BA in English Literature
- Foroohar chairs panel discussions with world leaders, intellectuals, and economists at the World Economic Forum and elsewhere.
- She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
- She sits on the advisory board of the Open Markets Institute.
- She is an economic and political contributor at New York City’s public radio station WNYC.
JOURNALISM
- Together with FT Editor Edward Luce, she writes the twice-weekly newsletter “Swamp Notes,” which covers money and power in Trump’s America and the big themes driving politics, business, and markets.
- She has authored numerous cover stories and essays on China and the next global recession, Europe’s economic crisis, and what the rise of “localnomics” means for American business.
- She frequently profiles movers and shakers in finance and business, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gross, Howard Shultz, Mary Barra, and Carl Icahn.
COMMENTARY
- Real Time with Bill Maher
- Face the Nation
- This Week with George Stephanopoulos
- Fareed Zakaria GPS
- MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”
- Real Vision
AWARDS
- German Marshall Fund’s Peter Weitz Prize for transatlantic reporting
- 2018 Best in Business Award by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing for her tech and policy coverage
FELLOWSHIPS
- Johns Hopkins School of International Affairs
- East-West Center at the University of Hawaii