Oct 08 2010
Fran Hawthorne
Award-winning Author & Financial Journalist, Specializing in Healthcare, Investing, Sustainable Investing, & Business-Social Policy
For more than twenty years, Fran Hawthorne has been one of the few journalists at the nexus where social and government policy meet business – an interrelationship that is becoming ever-more important in these days of rising consumer awareness and government regulation. She has written the only book that looks in-depth at the modern U.S. Food and Drug Administration. No journalist has more experience covering the multi-trillion-dollar pension-asset management arena. She has been interviewed on numerous television and radio shows, including CNN and National Public Radio, and been filmed for documentaries.
Fran Hawthorne understands and communicates the incredible complexity of discovering new drugs and introducing them to market”
Fran Hawthorne’s career includes being Senior Editor for Fortune magazine, running the Investor section, managing Fortune’s financial coverage. She was Senior Editor and senior writer at Institutional Investor magazine for fifteen years, Staff Editor at Business Week magazine for four years and News Editor of three award-winning newspapers in Silicon Valley. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in English from the University of California, while running the daily student newspaper and reporting for United Press International and the San Francisco Examiner. Currently, in addition to her books and public speaking, she writes regularly for The New York Times, The Scientist, Institutional Investor, and many other publications.[/expand]
From years of covering finance, healthcare, consumer activism, and politics for some of the world’s leading magazines, Fran Hawthorne is able to bring a unique range of experience, analysis, and ability to synthesize these crucial areas. She is an experienced public speaker who provides a thought-provoking and lively analysis of topics such as the impact of health reform, and where pensions fit into the strategies to move troubled companies forward. She offers invaluable insights into how businesses can adapt to growing social and environmental pressures.[/expand]
With clarity and humour, Fran Hawthorne is a speaker with a powerful message who has the ability to talk to her audiences as though sitting down together. A natural speaker, astute and comfortable on stage, with semi-professional acting experience, she takes questions confidently and eloquently.[/expand]
Topics
Healthcare / Business Opportunities, including Strategic Opportunities for the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industries & the Impact of Health Reform
Healthcare / Government Policy, including the Inner Workings of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Sustainable and Socially Responsible Investing, including How the Various SR Mutual Funds Choose their Portfolios
Growing Public & Government Pressure on Business & Concern with Business Ethics
Investment Trends for Institutional Investors
Financial Planning for Individuals, including Retirement Planning
Publications
2012
The Companies We Love
2010
The Overloaded Liberal: Shopping, Investing, Parenting, and Other Daily Dilemmas in an Age of Political Activism
2008
Pension Dumping: The Reasons, the Wreckage, the Stakes for Wall Street
2005
Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat
2003
The Merck Druggernaut: The Inside Story of a Pharmaceutical Giant
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