Famous People with Name Noreena

Noreena Hertz            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Noreena Hertz: an English economist, author and campaigner. She is a leading expert on economic globalisation.Hertz attended Westminster School, University College London (for bachelor's degree), UK and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (for MBA), U.S. before attaining her PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge (King's).At the invitation of a professor at Wharton, she then went to Russia to work for the World Bank and play a part in setting up the Russian stock exchange and in advising the Russian government on its privatisation programmes.Her disenchanted and highly critical Cambridge doctoral thesis, "Russian Business Relationships in the Wake of Reform", dispelling the myth of Russia's successful transition to a market economy and questioning the bank's requirements, was published in 1996.