Arianna Huffington

Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington is a Greek American author syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She co-founded The Huffington Post, is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global as well an author of fifteen novels. Arianna Huffington has been a journalist, TV personality as well as a philanthropist, author and journalist for more than 10 years. She also is the proprietor of The Huffington Post, an independently-liberal online newsmagazine. Originally from Greece Arianna Huffington emigrated to England with her family when she was the age of 16. While at Cambridge University she earned a MA qualification in Economics. The first non-English student, she was elected president of The Cambridge Union' at age 21. She was an author for a conservative newspaper after the graduation ceremony and, when The Huffington Post launched a couple of years later, she developed an online platform for voice with a critique of current politics. The celebrity she enjoyed enabled her to get a variety of famous people to share their opinions about current affairs, as well as politics and culture. Arianna gained fame after she decided to become an Independent candidate in the California Recall Election in order to succeed the former governor Davis. Alongside that, she also spearheaded an initiative in Detroit campaign to encourage fuel-efficient cars. Forbes declared her to be as one of the "most influential female" in the media industry and ranked her 12th. Guardian placed her on their list of the 100 most important media figures in 2009. AOL Inc. purchased The Huffington Post, and she was made president of the media company. This included many AOL products at the time like Engadget AOL style list and Patch Media. Elli was born to Konstantinos Stasinopoulos and Elli and Konstantinos Stasinopoulos, who both are journalist and management consultants. They were very close to her father, but it was the relationship she had with her mother that formed her. In her early years she demonstrated the leadership abilities and is a household name. In her 16th year, she travelled to England to pursue her studies and was enrolled in Girton College Cambridge. In the time of her studies she was a member of the Cambridge Union debating group where she became the first female president and only foreign president. She graduated in 1972 with an MA in Economics. She became a writer, a critic as well as a host on TV as well as a columnist following her graduation. In addition, she appeared with Bernard Levin in an episode of Face the music and started writing books using his editing assistance.