BIOGRAPHY
Nomi Prins is a renowned journalist, former international investment banker, author and speaker. Her new book, Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World, explores the rise of the role of central banks in the global financial and economic hierarchy and the implications. Her last book, All the Presidents' Bankers, is a groundbreaking narrative about the relationships of presidents to key bankers over the past century and how they impacted domestic and foreign policy. Her other books include a historical novel about the 1929 crash, Black Tuesday, and the hard-hitting expose It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street (Wiley,2009/2010). She is also the author of Other People’s Money: The Corporate Mugging of America (The New Press, 2004) chosen as a Best Book of 2004 by The Economist, Barron's and Library Journal.
She has appeared on numerous TV programs: internationally and nationally, including for the BBC, 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 featured in numerous documentaries shot by international production companies, alongside prominent thought-leaders.
Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, Newsday, Mother Jones, Truthdig, The Guardian, The Nation, NY Daily News, LaVanguardia, Salon.com and other publications.
Her engaging key-note speeches are thoughtfully tailored to the auidence. She has spoken at numerous venues including the Federal Reserve / IMF / World Bank Annual global central bank conference, Purdue University/Sinai Forum, University of Wisconsin, Ohio State University Law School, Columbia University, National Consumer Law Center, NASS Spinal Surgeons Conference, the Mexican Senate, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the UK Parliament, the London School of Economics, and the Metropolitan Club in Washington, DC.
Sought by politicians from all parties for advice, she was also a member of Senator (and presidential contender) Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Federal Reserve Reform Advisory Council, and is listed as one of America's TopWonks. She is on the advisory board of the whistle-blowing group ExposeFacts, and a board member of animal welfare and wildlife conservation group, the Elephant Project, and on the global advisory board of Ethical Markets.
Nomi received her BS in Math from SUNY Purchase, and MS in Statistics from New York University, where she completed coursework for a PhD in Statistics. Before becoming a journalist, Nomi worked on Wall Street as a managing director at Goldman Sachs, ran the international analytics group as a senior managing director at Bear Stearns in London, and worked as a strategist at Lehman Brothers and analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank.
