Rana Foroohar, Globally Renowned Financial Journalist, Joins Board of Open Markets Institute

WASHINGTON – Open Markets Institute is thrilled to announce that Rana Foroohar has agreed to join our board of directors. Rana is the global business columnist and an associate editor at the Financial Times and is the global economic analyst at CNN. Rana is the author of two books, Don’t Be Evil and Makers and Takers.

“Rana is one of the most important voices today in the effort to protect democracy from dangerous concentrations of power and control. She has an unparalleled understanding of the political, social, and psychological effects of the tech revolution, combined with an ability to communicate the dangers to policymakers and business leaders at the highest level,” said Barry Lynn, executive director of the Open Markets Institute. “All of us at Open Markets look forward to working with Rana to in the days and years to come. It is a true honor to have her join our team.”

Rana’s book Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – and All of Us, about how corporations such as Google and Amazon have reshaped economics, politics, and society, was released in November 2019 and was named the Porchlight Business Book of the year. Her previous book, Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, about why the capital markets no longer support business, was shortlisted for the Financial Times McKinsey Book of the Year award in 2016. Rana is currently at work on a book about the post-neoliberal world.

Prior to joining the FT, Foroohar worked for almost 20 years for Newsweek and then TIME as a foreign correspondent in Europe and the Middle East, assistant managing editor, and economic columnist. Rana was awarded the German Marshall Fund’s Peter Weitz Prize for transatlantic reporting. She has also received awards and fellowships from institutions including the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, the Newswoman’s Club of New York, the Johns Hopkins School of International Affairs, and the East West Center. Rana is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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