Maneet Ahuja

Editor-at-Large
Forbes

Maneet Ahuja is an award-winning journalist, author and Editor-at-Large at Forbes, where she covers the intersection of Wall Street, billionaires & entrepreneurial capitalism. She is also the Founder of ICONOCLAST, Forbes' premier global investor summit convening the world’s most iconic titans, visionaries, philanthropists, and changemakers with over $20 trillion in AUM for high-level conversations on the most critical issues impacting our markets and economies today. In 2024, she was a recipient of the Beacon Award by the Ellis Island Honors Society, which is awarded annually to a select cadre of young leaders from across the nation that have proven an outstanding commitment to serving the country professionally, culturally or civically.

Maneet holds the unique distinction of being the only journalist at Forbes to also be an alumnus of the celebrated Forbes Under 30 list for media. She has written several major cover stories for Forbes and interviewed some of the world's most powerful and influential leaders ranging from former U.S. president Bill Clinton and former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to financial titans and investment legends like JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Carl Icahn, Marc Andreessen & former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg.

Before joining Forbes, Maneet was awarded the prestigious Knight-Bagehot Fellowship at Columbia Journalism School. During her fellowship year she also served as the Host of Spotify’s Megatrends podcast, covering the biggest global trends of the era. Previously, she had over a decade-long tenure at CNBC, where she worked on major investigations such as Lehman Brothers’ collapse during the financial crisis and Herbalife. While at CNBC, she launched coverage on hedge funds and alternatives, subsequently creating Delivering Alpha, the network’s flagship annual Wall Street summit. This work led to her bestselling book, The Alpha Masters, which sold over 30,000 copies and was published in five languages. Her second book project, The Techtonics, was shortlisted for the 2019 FT Bracken Bower Prize.

Prior to CNBC, Maneet was a part of the Wall Street Journal’s Money & Investing team and began her career on Wall Street at the age of seventeen working at Citigroup—which is where she earned the nickname “Wall Street Maneet.”