Rana Aylin Foroohar (née Dogar; born March 4, 1970) is an American author, business columnist and an associate editor at the ''
Financial Times
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''. She is also
CNN
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's global economic analyst.
Life and career
Foroohar was born Rana Aylin Dogar in
Frankfort, Indiana, graduating from
Frankfort Senior High School in 1988.
Her father Aygen Erol Dogar is a Turkish immigrant and an engineer who started a small manufacturing business in the Midwest. Her mother Ann was a school teacher, and herself the daughter of immigrants from Sweden and England. In 1992, Foroohar graduated from
Barnard College
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with a
B.A.
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in
English literature.
Foroohar spent thirteen years at ''
Newsweek
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'', as an economics and foreign affairs editor and as a
London
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-based correspondent covering
Europe
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and the
Middle East
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. During that time, she was awarded the
German Marshall Fund
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Founded in 1972 through a gift from the We ...
's Peter Weitz Prize for transatlantic reporting. She has also received awards and fellowships from institutions such as the
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., United States, with campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China. It is consistently ranked one of th ...
at
Johns Hopkins University
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and the
East–West Center
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.
Foroohar then spent six years at ''
Time
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'' magazine, as an assistant editor and economic columnist.
Her articles included a 2013 cover story entitled "The Myth of Financial Reform", which was criticized by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
In 2016, she published her first book, ''Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business''. The book was shortlisted for the 2016
Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
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.
She joined the ''Financial Times'' as a columnist and associate editor in March 2017.
In November 2019, Foroohar published her second book ''Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles—and All of Us''. Her third book, ''Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World,'' was published in October 2022.
Her work has appeared in ''
The New York Review of Books
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''. She has also been interviewed on National Public Radio.
Personal life
Foroohar's first husband was Kambiz Foroohar, an Iranian-British journalist for Bloomberg.
She lives in
Brooklyn
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with her husband, writer
John Sedgwick
John Sedgwick (September 13, 1813 – May 9, 1864) was a military officer and Union Army general during the American Civil War.
He was wounded three times at the Battle of Antietam while leading his division in an unsuccessful assault against Co ...
, and her two children, daughter Darya and son Alex. She wrote about her father-in-law, Robert Minturn Sedgwick, an investment professional who warned about the disadvantages of
actively managed funds, in ''Makers and Takers''.
Books
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See also
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Everything bubble
The expression "everything bubble" refers to the correlated impact of monetary easing by the Federal Reserve (and followed by the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan) on asset prices in most asset classes, namely equities, housing, bon ...
, Foroohar predicted its bursting in 2022
References
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CNN appearances
FT articlesTime magazine articles*
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1970 births
American business and financial journalists
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
American people of English descent
American people of Swedish descent
American people of Turkish descent
American women columnists
American women journalists
Barnard College alumni
CNN people
Financial Times people
Living people
People from Frankfort, Indiana
Sedgwick family
Time (magazine) people
Writers from Indiana