Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics.

At 21, she became president of the famed debating society at Cambridge Union. Arianna Huffington is the president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of thirteen books.

In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. In 2012, the site won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.

She was named in the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people in both 2006 and 2011.