Noreena Hertz

Noreena Hertz’s background

The Observer has named her as “one of the world’s leading thinkers”, Vogue has named her “one of the world’s most inspiring women.”

Her thinking served as the inspiration for Bono’s Product (Red). She has featured as the Cover Story of Newsweek.

Noreena Hertz is ITV News Economics Editor. An influential economist on the international stage whose career has spanned Europe, the United States, Russia, the Middle East and Africa, she has advised some of the biggest organisations and most senior figures in the world on strategy, decision-making and data, global economic and geopolitical trends, millennials/Generations K, Y and Z, and corporate social responsibility.

Her best-selling books, “Eyes Wide Open: How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World” (2013), “IOU: The Debt Threat” (2004), and “The Silent Takeover” (2003), are examples of her own prescient thinking and have been published in 23 countries. Most recently she has been exploring the world of the post-millennials, today’s teenagers, who she has coined “Generation K”, with articles published in the UK, US, Europe and China.

Noreena’s new book, The Lonely Century, has been a great success. The book focuses on insight and predictions for life beyond the pandemic and how socially, economically, politically and technologically it will prevail. It has been on the bestseller list in Korea, and was chosen as ‘Most Important Book of 2021’ by the Non-Obvious Book Awards as well as El Mundo’s ‘Best Books of 2021’. It has already been published in at least 15 different countries and languages.

Noreena has served as a member of Citigroup’s Politics and Economics Global Advisory Board between 2007-08, and as a member of the Advisory Group steering McKinsey CEO Dominic Barton’s Inclusive Capitalism Taskforce between 2012 and 2013. From 2014-16 she served on the Board of Warner Music Group.

Noreena’s insights are much sought after on leading current affairs/politics/economics television and radio programmes, and she frequently appears on such flagship programmes as Newsnight and Question Time. She has been interviewed on shows such as the US’s Charlie Rose This Morning and Sky’s Hard Talk, as well as equivalent programmes in Europe and Asia. , has hosted her own show on Sirius XM, the United States’ biggest radio network with 64 million listeners, and served as ITV News’ Economics Editor where she led ITV’s economics coverage through a fascinating, fast-paced period that included the Referendum and its aftermath, the invoking of Article 50 and a General Election.

Noreena has been described by the Observer as “one of the world’s leading young thinkers” and Vogue as “one of the world’s most inspiring women.” She has a PhD from Cambridge University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is Visiting Professor at University College London. She has held professorships at Erasmus University and Utrecht University and fellowships at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics. She is Honorary Professor at University College London.

Over the past year, Noreena has delivered keynote speeches and moderated numerous events on topics ranging from A.I., to Brexit, to geopolitical risks, for organisations including the World Economic Forum at Davos, and select corporate clients.