Noreena Hertz
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Prof. Noreena Hertz (born September 24, 1967, London) is an English economist, author and campaigner. She is a leading expert on economic globalisation.
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[edit] Life
Noreena Hertz is a great-granddaughter of British Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz and was born and brought up in London, England. She attended Westminster School, University College London, and the Wharton School in Pennsylvania, USA. Her mother, fashion designer and feminist activist, Leah Hertz, died of cancer when she was 20 years old. Returning to the UK, she completed a PhD at King's College, University of Cambridge.
After that, she went to Russia to work for the World Bank at the invitation of a professor at Wharton to play a part in setting up the Russian stock exchange and in advising the Russian government on its privatisation programmes.
Her disenchanted and highly critical Cambridge doctoral thesis, "Russian Business Relationships in the Wake of Reform", dispelling the myth of Russia's successful transition to a market economy, was published in 1996.
She then turned her attention to the Middle East Peace Process, where she headed a 40-member research team of Palestinians, Israelis, Jordanians and Egyptians .
As of 2006, Hertz is a fellow and associate director at Cambridge's Judge Business School.
During 2005, Hertz also served a 6 month professorship at the University of Utrecht, Holland.
She was selected as a 'Young Global Leader of Tomorrow' by the World Economic Forum in 2004. In 2001, Management Today named her amongst the top 35 women under 35.[1]
[edit] Books
Prof. Hertz has published several studies on globalization and Russia. She used to work for the World Bank, and has written several popular books from that experience, including:
- 1997: Russian Business Relationships in the Wake of Reform (ISBN 0-333-71083-5)
- 2002: The Silent Takeover : Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy (ISBN 0-7432-3478-2)
- 2005: The Debt Threat : How Debt Is Destroying the Developing World (ISBN 0-06-056052-5)
- 2005: IOU: The Debt Threat and Why We Must Defuse It (ISBN 0-00-717899-9)
[edit] Politics
Hertz is regarded as being on the centre-left, rather than the further left position of the author to whom she is sometimes compared, Naomi Klein.
