Anya Schiffrin


Anya Schiffrin is the director of the Technology, Media, and Communications specialization at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and a lecturer at the School of International and Public Affairs.

Biography

Schiffrin is an American former business journalist. Previously, she freelanced and worked as an editor in Istanbul, a stringer for Reuters in Barcelona, a senior financial writer at The Industry Standard in New York, bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires in Amsterdam and Hanoi, and a writer for many other publications. She was a former Knight-Bagehot academic fellow in business journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Schiffrin is an alumna of Reed College.
As well as her role in the School of International and Public Affairs, Schiffrin serves on a number of boards including the , Global Board and the advisory board of the Natural Resource Governance Institute.
She writes on journalism and development as well as the media in Africa and the extractive sector, amongst other topics. Her most recent book is .
She is the daughter of the author and publisher André Schiffrin, and the sister in law of the lawyer Philippe Sands. She was married on October 29, 2004, to Nobel Prize-winning economist and author Joseph E. Stiglitz, who also teaches at Columbia University in New York City.
In 2011 her Reuters columns about the gender balance at Davos attracted international attention.

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