Rana Foroohar is Global Business Columnist and Associate Editor at the Financial Times, based in New York. She is also CNN鈥檚 Global Economic Analyst. Her first book, 鈥淢akers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business,鈥� was shortlisted for the Financial Times McKinsey Book of the Year award in 2016. Her second book, 鈥淒on鈥檛 Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles 鈥� And All of Us,鈥� released in 2019, was named Porchlight Business Book of the year. Her third book, 鈥淗omecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World,鈥� was published by Crown in October 2022, and is one of Kirkus鈥� best non-fiction books of 2022.
Prior to joining the FT and CNN, Foroohar spent 6 years at TIME, as assistant managing editor and economic columnist. She also spent 13 years at Newsweek, as an economic and foreign affairs editor and a foreign correspondent covering Europe and the Middle East. She is the recipient of the German Marshall Fund鈥檚 Peter Weitz Prize for transatlantic reporting, and has received awards and fellowships from institutions such as the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW), the Newswoman鈥檚 Club of New York, the Johns Hopkins School of International Affairs and the East West Center. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and sits on the board of the Open Markets 八卦爆料.
Foroohar graduated in 1992 from Barnard College, Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the author John Sedgwick, and her two children.
