Anya Schiffrin

Anya Schiffrin (born 6 December 1962) is an American academic and business journalist.

Schiffrin is co-director of the International Media and Communications (IMC) program and an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York City, where she teaches Topics in International Business and Economic Reporting. She was editor-in-chief of the Istanbul-based daily newspaper "The Turkish Times", a stringer for Reuters in Barcelona, senior financial writer at "The Industry Standard" in New York, bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires in Amsterdam and Hanoi, and a writer for many other publications. She was a former Knight-Bagehot academic fellow in business journalism.

Schiffrin is the director of journalism training programs at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, an international network of economists based at Columbia, and founder of [http://www.journalismtraining.net journalismtraining.net] .

She is co-editor, with Amer Bisat, of the 2004 book, "Covering Globalization" (Columbia University Press) [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023113/0231131747.HTM] .

She was married on October 29, 2004, to Nobel Prize-winning economist and author Joseph E. Stiglitz, who also works at Columbia University.