Early Life and History
Nasar was born to a German mother and an Uzbek father, a CIA officer Ruzi Nazar (Nasar). Her family immigrated to the United States in 1951, then moved to Ankara, Turkey in 1960. She graduated from Antioch College in 1970 and earned a Master's degree in Economics at New York University in 1976. For four years, she did research with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief. She joined Fortune magazine as a staff writer in 1983, became an columnist for U.S. News & Report in 1990, and was an economic correspondent for the New York Times from 1991 to 1999. She has been the first John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University since 1991. She has three adult children, Clara, Lily and Jack, and lives in Tarrytown, New York.
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