1. Noreena Hertz was born on 24 September 1967 and is an English academic, economist and bestselling author, who sits on the boards of Mattel, Warner Music Group and Workhuman.
21 Facts About Noreena Hertz
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Noreena Hertz has been Honorary Professor at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London since 2014.
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In 2001 The Guardian newspaper dubbed her "one of the world's leading young thinkers" In September 2013 Hertz was featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine.
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When she was 20 years old, her mother, the fashion designer and feminist activist Leah Noreena Hertz, died of cancer.
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Noreena Hertz was a precocious child and began her schooling aged just 3 years, taking her A levels at age 16.
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Noreena Hertz first attended North London Collegiate School followed by Westminster School.
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Noreena Hertz graduated from University College London in philosophy and economics at the age of 18.
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Noreena Hertz then attended The Wharton School, Philadelphia, where she majored in finance and earned her MBA at age 23.
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Noreena Hertz then worked for a short period at Triad Artists, a talent agency in Los Angeles, California, where she originally planned to break into the film industry as a producer.
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In 2009, Noreena Hertz was appointed Professor and chair of Globalisation, Sustainability and Finance at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Duisenberg School of Finance.
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Noreena Hertz is a fellow of the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School.
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Noreena Hertz is Honorary Professor at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London.
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Noreena Hertz presented her initial thinking on Generation K in 2015 at the World Economic Forum and at the Women in the World Summit in New York City.
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Noreena Hertz posits that they have been profoundly shaped not only by technology but by the recession and an increasing sense of existential threat.
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In 2001 Noreena Hertz contemplated whether "increasingly the most effective way to be political is not to register one's demands and wants at the ballot box".
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Noreena Hertz played a key role in the Live 8 campaign to cancel the debt of the world's poorest countries, and was one of the speakers at the 2005 Edinburgh Live 8 concert.
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In late 2005 Noreena Hertz began to publicly criticise the Make Poverty History campaign.
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Noreena Hertz promised nurses at the Royal College of Nursing annual conference that she would make sure that every football player in the Premier League would, by the end of the season, have donated one day's pay to a hardship fund for nurses struggling in their first few years.
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Noreena Hertz is an advisor to the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media and a Trustee of the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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In May 2014 Noreena Hertz joined the board of Warner Music Group.
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Noreena Hertz is married to Danny Cohen, the former Director of BBC Television.