Noreena Hertz - Life and Career

Life and Career

Noreena Hertz is a great-granddaughter of British Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz, and was born and brought up in London, England. When she was 20 years old, her mother, the fashion designer and feminist activist Leah Hertz, died of cancer.

Hertz attended North London Collegiate School, Westminster School, and University College London, UK, where she earned her Bachelor's degree. She then attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, U.S. where she earned her MBA, before gaining a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge (King's). Her Cambridge doctoral thesis, "Russian Business Relationships in the Wake of Reform" was published in 1996.

In 2002 The Silent Takeover was published.

In 2005, Hertz was appointed a Fellow of the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. That year IOU: The Debt Threat was published. During 2005, Hertz also served a 6 month professorship at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

In 2006, Hertz was a fellow and associate director of the Centre for International Business & Management (CIBAM), at Cambridge's Judge Business School.

In 2006, Hertz was appointed Fellow of the Centre for Global Governance at the London School of Economics.

In 2008, Hertz took up a Visiting Professorship at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the business school of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

In 2009, Hertz was appointed Professor of Globalisation, Sustainability and Finance at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Duisenberg School of Finance.