13/10/2024
Nomi Prins is a former Wall Street Executive, Entrepreneur, Keynote Speaker, Author, Geo-Political Economist, Founder of Prinsights Global and PhD. She has generously shared her purpose with the Woodhill Park Journal.
"When I consider my purpose," writes Nomi, "I think about solving puzzles. My passion for puzzles started when I was a little girl with my father. I used to decipher 1000-piece puzzles for hours.
When I was 22, I worked full-time on Wall Street and juggled a full-time master's program at NYU.
After completing that, I began my PhD – while working full-time at Lehman Brothers. At 24, I sat down before my panel of 3 professors to take my exams. We were allowed one index card of notes – and that meant tiny writing of many formulas.
I failed my comprehensive exam.
As I struggled to hold back tears, one of my professors told me – if you need an index card, you haven’t learned the material. To this day, whatever information I share, I make sure I learn it deeply first.
I don’t use notes in any of my public speeches.
I had a choice. I could retake my comps or I could move to London.
I chose London. I created an international analytics department for Bear Stearns and rose to become a senior managing director.
In 2000, I returned to New York as a managing director at Goldman Sachs. After 2 years, I quit Wall Street during the corporate scandals of Enron and WorldCom.
I became a journalist. I went from a corner office on the 29th floor to bringing coffee to the senior writer at Fortune Magazine. It was an incredibly humbling and liberating experience.
I pursued journalism to uncover and explain everything I'd learned in finance and how it impacts everyone else on Main Street.
My first "whistleblower" book, Other People's Money, delved into that subject. The Economist called it, "The most revealing description yet of what it is like to work for the mighty Goldman Sachs."
My subsequent books exposed how those in power utilise money to accumulate power at the expense of the rest of the world. The rest of the world doesn't understand what's happening or how.
In 2016, my sixth book, Collusion, was an exploration of how central banks rigged the world of finance after the 2008 financial crisis.
I spoke before press conferences and stock exchanges in Tokyo, industrial manufacturers in Mexico, central bankers in Brazil, MPs in the UK, miners in Canada and members of the United States government.
Two days before my dad passed away, he said, "You need to finish your PhD."
Six months later, COVID happened. During the pandemic, I finally finished my PhD. My dissertation was on the economic triangle of China, Brazil and the US.
The world revolves around money, power and geopolitics. It also contains real assets mined from beneath its surface and real people who manage their own finances.
I strive to continue to connect those global dots for people everywhere.
That is my purpose."
Read the full piece at the Woodhill Park Journal.
https://www.woodhillparkestate.com/journal-posts/piecing-together-global-economic-puzzles
