Rana Aylin Foroohar is an American business columnist and an associate editor at the Financial Times. She is also CNN's global economic analyst.
Life
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. Foroohar graduated from Barnard College in 1992 with a B. A. in English literature. 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. 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. She joined the Financial Times as a columnist and associate editor in March 2017. Foroohar's second book, published in November 2019, is Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – and All of Us. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her work has appeared in the New YorkReview of Books. She has also been interviewed on National Public Radio.
Family
Foroohar's first husband was Kambiz Foroohar, an Iranian-British journalist for Bloomberg. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband John Sedgwick 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.
