Arianna Huffington
Author, columnist and businesswoman
Arianna Huffington is a Greek-American author and businesswoman who co-founded The Huffington Post and later founded Thrive Global.
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Born 1950 in Athens, Greece
About Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington was born in Athens, Greece, and moved to England at 16. She graduated from Cambridge University with a master's degree in economics, and at 21 she became president of the Cambridge Union debating society. She launched The Huffington Post in May 2005, and in 2012 the site was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage at the national level. AOL bought it in 2011, and she left her role there in August 2016 to concentrate on Thrive Global, a company focused on behavior change. Huffington has written fifteen books. Thrive and The Sleep Revolution both became international bestsellers, and Thrive debuted at number one on the New York Times Bestseller list.