Susie Gharib, born in 1950, is a business news journalist. Currently, she is Senior Special Correspondent for ''

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'' magazine. Gharib is also a contributor to ''

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produced by

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,'' a program that she co-anchored for 16 years until she left the show in December 2014. She was replaced by

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Career

Gharib joined ''Nightly Business Report'' in 1998 after a 20-year career working at some of America’s most prestigious print and broadcast organizations, including

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, and

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/New York. Gharib launched her career as a business journalist at

magazine, where she was a senior writer and associate editor. Her previous work includes reporter positions at ''

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'', the

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, and ''

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''. In 1983, she moved from print to the then-new medium of TV business news when she joined ''Business Times'' on

. During part of her career she went by her married name, Susie Nazem.

Awards

In 2012, Gharib received the Elliot V. Bell Award from the New York Financial Writers’ Association for significant contribution to financial journalism. Gharib is the recipient of a 2013

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for NBR’s profile of Harvard University’s first female president Drew Gilpin Faust. Gharib received an earlier

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in 2001 as the top anchorwoman of a national news program. Gharib has also won the Fulbright Award in 2012 for furthering global business understanding, and the “Front Page Award” from the Newswoman’s Club of New York in both 2007 and 2002. Her 2002 Front Page Award was for an outstanding panel discussion with high-profile CEOs on how to restore investor confidence in the aftermath of the business scandals at

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and

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. She has also been named one of the nation's 100 most influential business journalists by the editors of TJFR, an industry publication.

Education

Gharib graduated

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with

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honors from

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Reser ...

. Gharib also earned her master's degree in international affairs at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. Gharib is among the outstanding graduates of Cleveland Heights High School featured in the book ''Every Tiger Has a Tale''.

Service

She is on the Board of Trustees of

, the Board of Advisors of

’s

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, and a member of the

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.Susie's Blog
, accessed March 4, 2015

Personal life

Gharib, one of four daughters of a Cleveland anesthesiologist, is of Iranian descent. One of her sisters is an endocrinologist in Boston. Gharib is married to Fred F. Nazem and have two children.

External links

Susie Gharib Distinguished Lectureship in Journalism

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gharib, Susie Living people Case Western Reserve University alumni School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni American television journalists American women television journalists American people of Iranian descent CNBC people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women