Bankersjourney 2024

How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire

With exclusive access to Safra’s personal archives, financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross tracks the banker’s remarkable journey from Beirut to Milan, São Paulo, Geneva, and New York—to the pinnacle of global finance.

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About the author

Daniel Gross is one of the most widely-read writers on finance, economics, and business history. Over the past three decades, he has reported from more than 30 countries, covering everything from the dotcom boom and the rise of China to the global financial crisis of 2008-2009.

Gross has worked as a reporter at The New Republic and Bloomberg News, wrote the “Economic View” column in The New York Times, and served as Slate’s “Moneybox” columnist. At Newsweek, where he was a columnist and correspondent, he authored seven cover stories. A frequent guest on television and radio, he has contributed to more than 60 publications, including New York, Fortune, and the Washington Post.

Gross is a bestselling author of eight books, including Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All TimeGenerations of CorningDumb Money: How America’s Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation; and Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline and the Rise of a New Economy.

Gross was educated at Cornell University and holds an AM in American history from Harvard University. His great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Aleppo and Damascus.

Press Publications

Media focus on the Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital’s role in treating returning hostages

As the world’s media is focused on the return of Israelis seized on October 7, 2023, the Edmond and Lily... read more

“A Banker’s Journey” French edition launched with events in Paris and Geneva

Following its success in its original English version in the US, and after achieving best seller status in Portuguese in... read more

Edmond J. Safra Foundation makes largest ever donation to Baruch College’s Weissman School

This exceptional gift will support the housing and digitization of the newly acquired Edmond J. Safra Republic National Bank of... read more

Paris Brain Institute soon to celebrate 15 years of research on brain disorders and salutes the support of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation

Based at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, the largest neurological hospital in France, the Institut du Cerveau,... read more

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