Richard Behar

Richard Behar

UK
Acclaimed International Business Investigative Journalist

One of the world's most respected and honored investigative journalists (with more than 20 major journalism awards), Richard Behar tackles everything from biased media coverage of the Middle East to Israeli-Palestinian co-ventures in high-tech, to how business leaders can succeed in some of the world's most corrupt and dangerous regions.
Richard Behar, the Contributing Editor of Investigations for Forbes magazine, has tackled it all—from planet-altering crimes in China to transnational business mafias in Russia. From fraud on Wall Street, to bribery in the sub-Sahara, to anti-Israel bias by his Western mainstream media peers. From terror financing in Pakistan to pharmaceutical espionage in Cyprus. He explains with captivating detail and crystal-clear eloquence what is happening on the ground in some of the world's most lawless developing countries—and how people might achieve successes there without sacrificing their ethics (or their lives).

One of the world's most respected and honored investigative journalists (with more than 20 major journalism awards), Richard Behar tackles everything from biased media coverage of the Middle East to Israeli-Palestinian co-ventures in high-tech, to how business leaders can succeed in some of the world's most corrupt and dangerous regions.
Richard Behar, the Contributing Editor of Investigations for Forbes magazine, has tackled it all—from planet-altering crimes in China to transnational business mafias in Russia. From fraud on Wall Street, to bribery in the sub-Sahara, to anti-Israel bias by his Western mainstream media peers. From terror financing in Pakistan to pharmaceutical espionage in Cyprus. He explains with captivating detail and crystal-clear eloquence what is happening on the ground in some of the world's most lawless developing countries—and how people might achieve successes there without sacrificing their ethics (or their lives).

Hating Israel

With traditional journalism watchdog groups like the Columbia Journalism Review now asleep at the switch, traditional investigative reporting may be the only way to can stop the downward spiral in journalism standards on the Israeli-Palestinian and other Middle East conflicts. Behar is one of the only highly-regarded mainstream media reporters who is deeply exposing bias, laziness and sloppiness in the Western media world's coverage of this region. He's done it in Forbes, and more recently in...
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Capitalism in a Cold Climate: How to Navigate Inside Russia's Lawless and Treacherous Business World

How can Western businesses work and compete in today's Russia-a country where the hottest trends are intellectual-property "squatting," raiding companies with armed private-security forces, "commissioning" criminal prosecutions for competitive advantages, and engaging in collusive litigation? How can investors learn what is truly going on in a country where 19 investigative journalists have been murdered since 2000? (Only two of those cases has been solved; the masterminds all walk free.)...
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How Corporate and Government Cybersecurity Is Failing—and What You Must Do About It

Richard Behar speaks about what businesses and governments are doing (and not doing) to secure computers, which is essential to national security given that we all are now interconnected.

He wrote a definitive story for Forbes magazine (May 2016) about a clandestine cybersecurity military squad in Israel called "Unit 8200."  Behar explains why the unit is "probably the best school in the world for entrepreneurship."  He also wrote a cover story...

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