Noreena hertz biography for kids
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Interview: Noreena Hertz
Lynne Franks: I am interested in what being a Jewish woman feels like for you in today's society and how your upbringing as a young Jewish woman has affected your view of the world. Both your parents were Israelis weren't they?
Noreena Hertz: Yes. They were both born in… Well, it wasn't even Israel then.
LF: Palestine.
NH: Yes, Palestine and the British Mandate in mid-1930s.
LF: And your great-grandfather was a rabbi.
Noreena Hertz
Born: September 24, 1967
Early life: The great granddaughter of former Chief Rabbi Joseph H Hertz. Raised in London. Attended University College, London. Earned an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in economics from Cambridge.
Career: Made her name with her 2002 book The Silent Takeover, warning that over-powerful financial institutions would have serious global consequences.
Personal life: Engaged to BBC1 controller Danny Cohen
NH: Chief Rabbi here in Britain during the
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Noreena Hertz
British economist
Noreena Hertz (born 24 September 1967) is an English academic, economist and bestselling author, who sits on the boards of Mattel, Warner Music Group and Workhuman. She has been Honorary Professor at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London since 2014.
In 2001 The Guardian newspaper dubbed her "one of the world's leading young thinkers"[1] In September 2013 Hertz was featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine.[2]Fast Company magazine has named her "one of the most influential economists on the international stage" and observed: "For more than two decades [her] economic predictions have been accurate and ahead of the curve."[3]
She describes herself as "a campaigning academic". British media has nicknamed her the "Nigella Lawson of economics".[4]
Early life
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Hertz, Noreena
PERSONAL: Female. Education: Wharton College, M.B.A.; Cambridge University, Ph.D.
ADDRESSES: Home—London, England. Offıce—Centre for International Business and Management, Judge Institute of Management, Trumpington St., Cambridge CB2 1AG, England. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, professor of business; Centre for International Business and Management, associate director; writer.
WRITINGS:
Russian Business Relationships in the Wake of Reform, foreword by John Lloyd, St. Martin's (New York, NY), 1997.
The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalization and theDeath of Democracy, Free Press (New York, NY), 2002.
SIDELIGHTS: Noreena Hertz is an educator and writer who is known for her insights into contemporary capitalist practices. In 1997 she published Russian Business Relationships in the Wake of Reform, which examines the evolving practices of seven companies after the decline of the Soviet Un