Formerly senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek, covering Wall Street, international finance and emerging markets. Reported everywhere from Mozambique and Botswana to the Mideast and Medellín, Colombia, to the Dominican Republic and the Niger Delta.

Started career at Goldman Sachs, on a team that managed $1.8 billion in assets.

Appearances: MSNBC, CNN, The PBS News Hour, C-SPAN, CNBC, Dateline NBC, ABC’s Good Morning America, the CBS Early Show and Charlie Rose. A regular on National Public Radio. Bylines in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe. Born in Iran and raised in Miami.

Graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School.