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Biography
Rana Foroohar (born 1970) is an iranian-American assistant managing editor for Time magazine. In the past, she was an economics and foreign editor at Newsweek, where she had previously worked as a London-based correspondent covering Europe and the Middle East. For this reporting, she received the German Marshall Fund's Peter R. Weitz Prize for transatlantic reporting.
Life
Foroohar was raised in Frankfort, Indiana. She graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1992 with a B. A. in English literature.
Foroohar resides in Brooklyn with her husband John Sedgwick and her two children, daughter Darya and son Alex.
Foroohar is also a global economic analyst for CNN, a frequent commentator on NPR and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her book Makers and Takers: The Rise and Fall of American Businesswas shortlisted for the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
Her work has appeared in the New York Review of Books.
Works
Rana Foroohar (17 May 2016). Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-553-44723-1.