Nomi Prins is a renowned journalist, author and
speaker. Her most recent book,
All the Presidents' Bankers, a groundbreaking narrative about the relationships of presidents to key bankers over the past century will be out April 8, 2014. Her last book was a historical novel about the 1929 crash,
Black Tuesday. Before that, she wrote the hard-hitting, acclaimed book,
It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street (Wiley, September, 2009/October 2010). She is also the author of
Other People’s Money: The Corporate Mugging of America (The New Press, October 2004) which predicted the current financial crisis, and was chosen as a Best Book of 2004 by The Economist, Barron's and The Library Journal, and
Jacked (Polipoint Press, Sept. 2006). She has appeared on numerous TV programs: internationally for BBC World and RtTV, and nationally for CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, CSPAN, Democracy Now, Fox and PBS. She has been featured on hundreds of radio shows globally including for CNNRadio, Marketplace, NPR, BBC, and Canadian Programming. She has been in
numerous documentaries shot by US, Norwegian, French, Dutch and other production companies, alongside other prominent thought-leaders, and Nobel Prize winners, including
The Big Fix, Heist, and Plunder. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, Fortune, Newsday, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Slate, The Guardian UK, The Nation, Alternet, LaVanguardia, and other publications. She is a member of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt)
Federal Reserve Reform Advisory Council, and listed as one of
America's TopWonks. Her key-note and presidential choice speeches are thoughtfully tailored for particular audiences, ranging from students to academics to grant makers to lawyers to spinal surgeons to the Mexican Senate.
Nomi received her BS degree in Mathematics from SUNY Purchase, and MS degree in Statistics from New York University, where she also completed all of the required coursework for a PhD in Statistics. Before becoming a journalist, Nomi worked on Wall Street as a managing director at Goldman Sachs. Prior to that, she ran the international analytics group as a senior managing director at Bear Stearns in London. She also worked as a strategist at Lehman Brothers and an analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank. She is a Senior Fellow at the non-partisan public policy think-tank,
Demos.
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