Cathie Gandel

Cathie Gandel has spent over 25 years in journalism and corporate communications.

As a freelance journalist, she has written on personal finance and business, health, travel, marketing, advertising and public relations, retail development/​construction and corporate philanthropy. She has also done profiles of business leaders in the U.S. and Japan, and ghost-written articles and op-ed pieces. Her articles or essays have appeared in the AARP publications, Reader's Digest, Newsweek, Arrive, Smithsonian.com, Retail Construction, The Los Angeles Times, The Far East Traveler, Asian Advertising and Marketing and Winds, the Japan Airlines in-flight magazine.

Ms. Gandel’s first book, Jon Jerde in Japan: Designing the Spaces Between, was published in April, 2000 by Balcony Press. The book became number 4 on The Los Angeles Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List in July of that year.

She has lived and worked in four cities on three continents -- Melbourne, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; Los Angeles and New York City -- and now lives in Bridgehampton, New York. She is married to Earl Gandel and they have two sons, Matthew and Stephen.