Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein

Naomi A. Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of capitalism. On a three-year appointment from September 2018, she is the Gloria Steinem Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.Klein first became known internationally for her alter-globalization book No Logo (1999). The Take (2004), a documentary film about Argentina's occupied factories, written by her and directed by her husband Avi Lewis, further increased her profile, while The Shock Doctrine (2007), a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics, solidified her standing as a prominent activist on the international stage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Naomi Klein has received more than 1,546,003 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Naomi Klein is the 3,005th most popular writer (up from 3,647th in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Canada (up from 247th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Canadian Writer.