Jane Ferguson

Jane Ferguson is the CEO and Founder of Noosphere, and visiting lecturer on the History of Entrepreneurship at Princeton University. An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Ferguson previously spent 15 years as a war reporter, covering the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia for PBS and The New Yorker. 

Her reporting has focused on rare access to insurgent groups, the Arab spring revolutions and wars that followed, and the humanitarian disasters caused by conflict in countries such as Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan. 

She has won multiple accolades, including an Emmy, a Peabody award, a George Polk Award, and two duPont-Columbia silver batons. Her award-winning memoir, No Ordinary Assignment, was released in 2023 and is a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice.