O’Connor leaving Forbes for new job

Clare O’Connor, a Forbes staff writer for the past seven-and-a-half years, is leaving the magazine.

Friday is her last day. O’Connor has a new job that starts in January.

O’Connor has been at the magazine since June 2010. Since February 2016, she has been covering women entrepreneurs and workplace equality. She also has a Forbes podcast, “Million$,” where she interviews self-made women on the good, bad, and ugly of founding and funding a business.

She also covered the super-rich for the Forbes 400 and World’s Billionaires lists, responsible for net worth valuations of fortunes in the U.S., U.K and continental Europe.

She also covered retail and e-commerce for Forbes.

O’Connor also spent 14 months as a reporter for The Royal Gazette in Bermuda.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.