A native of Iran, Pye is a seasoned strategic planning executive and business analyst with fifteen years of combined strategy research, project management, consulting, marketing, production and lending operations experiences in the media, telecommunications, mortgage/real estate and technical consulting sectors. His areas of analytical focus include macroeconomics, international relations, energy economics, political economy and corporate consolidations. He acquired operations experience at a leading real estate investment trust and has a deepened global macroeconomic/finance perspective, and holds an MBA, International Finance and Business Strategy, University of Cambridge. He writes for The Huffington Post.