- Alan Friedman
Alan Friedman (b.
April 30 ,1956 inNew York City ) is an award-winningauthor , television personality,journalist and economics specialist from theUnited States .Education
Friedman was educated at
New York University (NYU) (B.A. Politics and History), theLondon School of Economics (International Relations) and theJohns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (M.A. International Economics and Law).Journalistic career
Friedman's television career began in the early '80s with regular appearances on the
BBC Newsnight broadcast. In 1991 he participated, with Ted Koppel of the ABC Nightline programme, in the production of a series of broadcasts by ABC/Financial Times on the scandal of the weapons sale toIraq .Friedman worked in the administration of President
Jimmy Carter in the role of presidential management intern. He began his professional career working for the staff of Hon.Bella Abzug (D-NY) and of Hon.Donald Fraser (D-MN).From 1979 to 1993 he worked for the
Financial Times of London, as a columnist on bonds, a banking correspondent and a foreign correspondent in Italy and the United States. His professional relationship with the International Herald Tribune and RAI made way, in 1999, to a joint venture for the co-production of the weekly programmes "World Business/Pianeta Economia" (Planet Economy), produced by FBC.He was recognized as the journalist who led the report on the Iraq-Gate scandal in 1991 that connected the
CIA with the supply of non-U.S. origin weapons toSaddam Hussein .He hosted the "Alan Friedman Show", a peak talk show on the Sky TG24 news channel in Italy. It was dedicated to national and international economics and politics. From 1994 to 2003 Friedman was global economics correspondent of the IHT.
From 2003 to 2005 he was global economy columnist for the "
Wall Street Journal " of Europe and executive director of "World Business ", aCNBC Europe peak programme.Also chairman of Fact Based Communication (london).http://www.fbcmedia.com
Awards
Friedman was awarded the
British Press Award four times during his 14-year career with the Financial Times.He has been the only American journalist to have received the
Medal of Honour from the Italian Parliament, in 1997.Books
*"AGNELLI and the Network of Italian Power" (Harrap, New American Library, Longanesi and Planeta, 1988)
*"Spider’s Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq" (Bantam, Longanesi, Faber and Faber, 1993).External links
* [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/17/1615235 Democracy Now! interview transcript]
* [http://edition.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/01/24/agnelli/index.html CNN.com article on Agnelli's death]
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