Nina Easton

Nina Easton
Easton at the 2012 Fortune "Most Powerful Women" summit
Born	(1958-10-27) October 27, 1958 (age 58)
Residence	Chevy Chase, Maryland
Nationality	American
Occupation	Journalist and author
Employer	Fortune Magazine
Spouse(s)	Russell Schriefer (m. 2004)

Nina Jane Easton (born October 27, 1958) is an American journalist, TV commentator, and author. In 2016, she co-founded SellersEaston Media, a private-client storytelling service that preserves the legacies of leaders in business, public service, and philanthropy. A former senior editor and award-winning columnist for Fortune Magazine, she now chairs Fortune Most Powerful Women International, with live events in Asia, Europe, and the U.S., and she co-chairs the Fortune Global Forum, which brings together top business leaders from around the world. At the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), she hosts a live event and iTunes podcast series on global affairs called "Smart Women Smart Power." She is a frequent political analyst on television and was a 2012 fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Nina Easton started her career in journalism in 1981 as a writer for Ralph Nader, for whom she co-authored a book on the Reagan Administration. In 1984 she became a staff reporter for the Washington D.C.-based Legal Times. She then wrote for The American Banker and Businessweek before joining the Los Angeles Times as a staff writer, a position she held from 1988 to 1998. Easton's writing for the Los Angeles Times earned her a National Headliner Award in 1994 for best magazine writing and a Sunday Magazine Editors Award for investigative reporting.

In 2003, Easton joined The Boston Globe as the deputy bureau chief at the paper's Washington bureau. From 2006 until 2016, she was a senior editor covering politics and economics for Fortune Magazine. In 2014, her Fortune column was honored with a National Headliner Award for magazine commentary. Easton also serves as chair of Fortune Magazine's Most Powerful Women International, which hosts events in the United States as well as internationally. She is co-chair of the Fortune Global Forum, which in 2016 brought CEOs to the Vatican to meet Pope Francis and discuss a private-sector compact on creating a more inclusive global economy.