Rana Foroohar

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| birth_name = Rana Aylin Dogar

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|3|4}}

| birth_place = Frankfort, Indiana, U.S.

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| education = Barnard College (BA)

| spouse = Kambiz Foroohar (divorced)
John Sedgwick

| website = [https://www.ranaforoohar.com ranaforoohar.com]

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Rana Aylin Foroohar (née Dogar; born March 4, 1970) is an American author, business columnist and an associate editor at the Financial Times.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/rana-foroohar|title=Rana Foroohar|website=Financial Times|access-date=December 4, 2017}} She is also CNN's global economic analyst.

Life and career

Foroohar was born Rana Aylin Dogar in Frankfort, Indiana, graduating from Frankfort Senior High School in 1988.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/264389600/ |title=1988 High School Graduates|work=Journal and Courier |place=Lafayette, Indiana |date=May 24, 1988 |access-date=April 1, 2020}}{{cite web|last1=Foroohar|first1=Rana|title=Trump's trade policies won't help my town|url=https://www.ft.com/content/6b753c9c-ff77-11e6-96f8-3700c5664d30|date=March 5, 2017|work=Financial Times|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20200402043830/https://www.ft.com/content/6b753c9c-ff77-11e6-96f8-3700c5664d30|archivedate=April 2, 2020}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ranaforoohar.com/about/|title=About – Rana Foroohar|website=ranaforoohar.com|language=en-US|access-date=December 4, 2017}} In 1992, Foroohar graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in English literature.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.timemediakit.com/bios/foroohar/|title=Rana Foroohar – TIME Media Kit|magazine=Time|accessdate=March 19, 2018}}

Foroohar spent thirteen years at Newsweek, as an economics and foreign affairs editor and as a London-based correspondent covering Europe and the Middle East. During that time, she was awarded the German Marshall Fund'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 at Johns Hopkins University and the East–West Center.

Foroohar then spent six years at Time 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.{{cite web|last1=Coley|first1=Anthony|title=Response to TIME Magazine Article on Financial Reform|url=https://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Pages/Response-to-TIME-Magazine-Article-on-Financial-Reform-.aspx|publisher=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.{{cite web |last=Tseng |first=Nin-Hai |url=http://fortune.com/2016/04/24/books-societal-challenges/|title=3 New Books on What You Should Be Worried About This Spring|work=Fortune|date=April 24, 2016}} The book was shortlisted for the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.{{cite web |last=Onwuemezi |first=Natasha |url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/bloomsbury-get-two-ft-business-book-shortlist-390771 |title=Bloomsbury has two on FT Business Book shortlist |work=The Bookseller |date=September 8, 2016 |accessdate=September 9, 2016}}

She joined the Financial Times as a columnist and associate editor in March 2017.{{cite web|title=Rana Foroohar joins the Financial Times|url=https://aboutus.ft.com/en-gb/announcements/rana-foroohar-joins-the-financial-times/|website=Financial Times|date=December 5, 2016|accessdate=February 19, 2018}}

In November 2019, Foroohar published her second book Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles—and All of Us.{{cite web |last=Naughton |first=John |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/03/dont-be-evil-review-rana-foroohar-tech-giants-too-big-to-fail |title=Don't Be Evil review—how the tech giants have become too big to fail |work=The Guardian |date=November 3, 2019}} 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. She has also been interviewed on National Public Radio.{{cite web |author=Gonyea, Don |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/12/29/680950652/market-volatility-forecast|title=Market Volatility Forecast|work=NPR|date=December 29, 2018}}

Personal life

Foroohar's first husband was Iranian-British journalist Kambiz Foroohar.

She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, writer John Sedgwick, and her two children, Alex and Darya.{{Cite web|url=http://ineteconomics.org/research/experts/ranaforoohar|title=Rana Foroohar|publisher=Institute for New Economic Thinking|language=en-us|access-date=March 14, 2023}} 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.{{cn|date=April 2024}}

Books

{{cite book|last=Foroohar|first=Rana|title=Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=faouDAAAQBAJ|year=2016|publisher=Crown Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-553-44723-1}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/0eb481fc-7511-11e6-b60a-de4532d5ea35|title=FT business book shortlist takes in the world's challenges|last=Hill|first=Andrew|newspaper=Financial Times|issn=0307-1766|access-date=2016-10-04}}
{{cite book|last=Foroohar|first=Rana|title=Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles—and All of Us|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m0mHDwAAQBAJ|year=2019|publisher=Currency|isbn=978-1-984-82398-4}}
{{cite book|last=Foroohar|first=Rana|title=Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XwNaEAAAQBAJ|year=2022|publisher=Crown Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-593-24054-0}}