Arianna Huffington

Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington has been an Greek American columnist, author and businesswoman for over 20 years. She was co-founder of The Huffington Post, is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global as well an author of fifteen novels. Arianna Huffington is an author and philanthropist as well as a television host and owner of the independently open online newsmagazine The Huffington Post. She moved to Greece to England when she was 16 years old, and received an MA in Economics from Cambridge University in Economics. She was the first student non-UK to be elected the president of The Cambridge Union at the age 21. Her success as a conservative columnist was consolidated after she completed her studies. With the introduction of The Huffington Post a few months later, she launched an online voice portal that offered critiques of the politics. She was able to get many prominent contributors to share their views on culture and politics. Arianna became famous in 2003 when she ran as an independent candidate in the California recall elections in order to replace Governor Davis. Alongside that, she led a Detroit initiative to promote fuel-efficient cars. In 2009 she was named by Forbes as The most influential female media personality, taking the 12th position in the list and in the same year the Guardian included her in the top 100 of media lists. In 2011 AOL Inc. acquired The Huffington Post and made the president of that media unit, which comprised of many at the time-current AOL properties too such as Engadget AOL music Style list and Patch Media. Elli has two siblings, Konstantinos Stasinopoulos and Elli the other, both of whom are management consultants and journalists. They were very close to her father, but it was the relationship she had with her mother which formed her. Even during her formative period, she displayed the qualities of a leader for which her name is still well-known. When she moved to England, she was 16 to continue her education and was accepted into Girton College Cambridge. She joined the Cambridge Union college debate society while in college in which she became the third and first female to hold the position of president. In 1972, she earned an honorary degree in Economics. After graduation, she began working as a critic for a newspaper column and as a host on television. She also appeared in the show Face the music along with Bernard Levin and began writing books with editorial assistance from his.