Arianna Huffington

Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (; , ; 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.

She is the author of fifteen books, although two have been dogged by allegations of plagiarism, one of which she paid another author, an out of court settlement. 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 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 was listed by ''Forbes'' as the 52nd Most Powerful Woman in the World. She had moved to 77nd as of 2018 and dropped off the list as of 2019.

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, a behavior change technology company with the mission of improving productivity and health outcomes. Provided by Wikipedia