Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington Bio

Arianna Huffington is a Greek-American author, columnist, and business woman born in Athens, Greece on July 15, 1950. She is the co-founder of and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post. Huffington attended college at Girton College, Cambridge and studied economics. She was the third woman and the first international president of the Cambridge Union. In 2011 AOL purchased The Huffington Post for $315 million and made Arianna the President and Editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group. In 2016 she stepped down from her role at The Huffington Post to start her new venture Thrive Global. In 1973 she published her first book The Female Woman that attacked the Women’s Liberation Movement. She has since written 14 more books, including The Gods of Greece, Greetings from the Lincoln Bedroom, Pigs at the Trough, The Fourth Instinct, Fanatics & Fools, The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life One Night at a Time and others. In 2003 she ran as an independent candidate in the 2003 recall election of Gray Davis against Arnold Schwarzenegger, but ended up dropping out of the race early. She has made appearances on a number of radio and television shows like The Daily Show, Saturday Night At The Mill, The Cleveland Show, Any Questions, How I Met Your Mother and more.