Roben Farzad (Farsi: رابن فرزاد) is the host of the Full Disclosure podcast on NPR One and a Special Correspondent for PBS NewsHour on PBS. Farzad is also the author of Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami (2017, Penguin Random House). Farzad is based in Richmond, Virginia. ^[1]

Roben Farzad was born to a Jewish family in Shiraz, Iran. Farzad and his family left Iran in late 1978 and settled in Miami, Florida. Farzad graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts in Public and International Affairs, and went on to earn a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 2005. ^[1]

After graduating from Princeton, Farzad spent two years at the Miami office of Goldman Sachs, where he managed USD 1.8 billion in assets for Latin American clients. Farzad transitioned to journalism in 2000 and spent three years as a staff writer at SmartMoney. Following business school, Farzad worked for nine years as a senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, and joined the staff of NPR in 2014. ^[1]