Parmy Olson
Parmy Olson is the author of “We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency,” the first full account of the 2010 digital hacking assault on the websites of VISA, MasterCard and PayPal in protest for their treatment of Wikileaks. Olson is also the London Bureau Chief for Forbes Magazine and Forbes.com, managing coverage of the financial crisis in Europe, interviewing billionaires Philip Green, Yuri Milner and the controversial Mohammed Al Fayed, and breaking stories such as the Facebook-Spotify partnership in 2011. A dual national with British-American citizenship and Portuguese heritage, her journalistic career and education have largely been based in the U.K., seeing her graduate from London's City University in 2004 and working as a local radio journalist for Britain's oldest commercial radio station, Radio Jackie 107.8FM. She went on to work for BBC Television before joining Forbes' London bureau in late 2005.
