Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi reports and produces for Planet Money, telling stories that creatively explore and explain the workings of the global economy. He's a sucker for a good supply chain mystery 鈥� from to to . He's drawn to tales of unintended consequences, like the time a well-intentioned chemistry professor unwittingly helped unleash , or what happened when the U.S. Patent Office started granting And he's always on the lookout for economic principles at work in unexpected places, like the tactics comedians use to protect their .

He's reported from Iceland on the dramatic , from Denmark on the , and from Germany on the country's (uncannily familiar) obsession with . He also produced Planet Money's 2020 Murrow-award-winning , the show's audiobook rendition of the , as well as collaborative episodes with , and Gimlet Media's .

Horowitz-Ghazi hails from Santa Fe, New Mexico, studied history at Reed College, and got his start in radio at Oregon Public Broadcasting. He was selected as a 2014 AIR New Voices Scholar and a 2019 Arthur F. Burns Fellow. He previously worked with Michel Martin's team at All Things Considered, where he produced breaking news and feature stories, led film coverage, and directed the live broadcast.

At All Things Considered, Horowitz-Ghazi reported on how a national clown scare , who was behind of a wave of on the California coastline, what happens to a after they die, and why his hometown every year. He also pitched and produced "," a series of profiles on people adapting to the changing economy, and has interviewed , , , , , , , , , and , among many others. In his free time, he enjoys riding bicycles, playing squash (middlingly), and sleeping out of doors.