About Freedom Ahn
Freedom Ahn holds an MBA in International Business, with a specialisation in East Asian business. She has more than 20 years of writing and research experience and an extensive editorial and publication record, including seven books and hundreds of articles across journalism, business, and general-interest publications.
Her professional background spans 25 years in corporate IT and finance, as well as work with government institutions through contracts and freelance engagements. She draws on this experience in data operations, regulated industries, and business research, working with primary documents, regulatory filings, datasets, institutional records, and Japanese-language sources to produce evidence-based analysis.
Her independent research examines cultural practice, the transmission of history and meaning, and form as a language. Her particular focus is grand sumo, which she studies as an institutional and cultural system. This research is published through SumoScholar.
Ahn’s first professional publication appeared in a sports magazine in the late 1980s. Her subsequent bylined work has appeared in The Japan Times, The Independent (UK), and HuffPost (USA), among other publications.
She has also ghostwritten work published under executive bylines in Forbes, The Telegraph, The Los Angeles Times, BBC, Entrepreneur, and The CEO Magazine, among many others.
Selected published books and works are available through Amazon.