Michael Moran (journalist)

Michael Moran (journalist)

Michael E. Moran (born May 1962, Kearny, New Jersey) is an author and analyst of international affairs, a digital documentarian and Vice President, Country Risk at Control Risks, a global political risk and security consultancy. A foreign policy journalist and geostrategist for investment banks and financial consultancies, he is author of The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy and the Future of American Power and co-author of the 2012 book The Fastest Billion: The Story Behind Africa's Economic Revolution. Moran served as Editor-in-Chief at the investment bank Renaissance Capital and has been a collaborator of renowned economist Nouriel Roubini as well commentator for Slate, the BBC and NBC News. He also spent a decade as an adjunct professor of journalism at Bard College and was the founding editor of the award-winning Crisis Guides documentary series for the Council on Foreign Relations.