Arianna Huffington

Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (née Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, el, Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου ; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of ''The Huffington Post'', the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of fifteen books. She has been named to ''Time'' magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people and the ''Forbes'' Most Powerful Women list.

Huffington serves on numerous boards, including Onex, and Global Citizen. Her last two books, ''Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder'' and ''The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time'', both became instant international bestsellers.

Huffington, the former wife of Republican congressman Michael Huffington, co-founded ''The Huffington Post'', which is now owned by BuzzFeed. She was a popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, after which, in the late-1990s, she offered liberal points of view in public, while remaining involved in business endeavors. In 2003, she ran as an independent candidate for governor in the California recall election and lost. In 2009, Huffington was in ''Forbes'' first-ever list of the Most Influential Women In Media. She has also moved up to in ''The Guardian''s Top 100 in Media List. As of 2014, she is listed by ''Forbes'' as the 52nd Most Powerful Woman in the World.

In 2011, AOL acquired ''The Huffington Post'' for US$315 million, and made Huffington the president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which included ''The Huffington Post'' and then-existing AOL properties including AOL Music, Engadget, Patch Media, and StyleList.

She stepped down from her role at ''The Huffington Post'' in August 2016 to focus on a new startup, Thrive Global, centered on health and wellness information.

Early life

Huffington was born Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou () in Athens, Greece, in 1950, the daughter of Konstantinos (a journalist and management consultant) and Elli (née Georgiadi) Stasinopoulou, and is the sister of Agapi (an author, speaker, and performer). She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 16 and studied economics at Girton College, Cambridge, where she was the first foreign, and third femaleTalbot, Margaret (April 13, 1998), "The Politics of Fame". ''New Yorker''. pages 40–47. president of the Cambridge Union. She studied abroad in India, and told IANS in an email interview "India has long held a special place in my heart, from the time I went to study comparative religion at Visva-Bharati University".

In 1971, Huffington appeared in an edition of '' Face the Music'' along with Bernard Levin. A relationship developed, of which she wrote, after his death: "He wasn't just the big love of my life, he was a mentor as a writer and a role model as a thinker."Stassinopoulos-Huffington, Arianna
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''The Sunday Times'', August 15, 2004, accessed June 24, 2011 Huffington began writing books in the 1970s, with editorial help from Levin. The two traveled to music festivals around the world for the BBC
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