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William Green

Senior Advisor


  • Industry start
    1997
  • Year joined
    2021

William Green is a senior advisor to the Global Value team. He joined First Eagle in November 2021. William is the author of the 2021’s Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World’s Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life, based on his interviews of legendary investors. As an editor and coauthor, William has collaborated on several books, including Guy Spier’s memoir, The Education of a Value Investor. William also wrote and edited The Great Minds of Investing. In more than three decades of journalism, William has written for such publications as Time, Fortune, Forbes, Barron’s, Money, Worth, Fast Company, Bloomberg Markets, The (London) Spectator, The Economist and The New Yorker. He also has edited the Asian, European, Middle Eastern and African editions of Time. William was educated at Eton, studied English literature at Oxford University and received a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.