As CNN’s Chief Business Correspondent, anchor of CNN International’s World Business Today, and host of CNN’s weekly business roundtable Your Money, Ali Velshi’s inquisitive, interpretative, optimistic and problem-solving approach to international and personal finance, business and investing reaches viewers, listeners and readers in 222 countries every day.
At the podium, Velshi brings his authentic and traditional field reporting together with experiences from his international economic coverage to connect audiences with global trends, and to explain how they cannot just protect themselves from the harmful ones, but profit from the beneficial ones. Drawing from his latest book, How To Speak Money Velshi provides context to his audiences, allowing them to realize the advantages of emerging trends — investing in them, educating themselves or re-training to participate in them, and creating or growing business around them.
No single money journalist is able to replicate Velshi’s global footprint, access to global financial leaders, or his drive to provide his audience with tangible and practical tools to ensure their long-term financial security and career longevity. He uses this knowledge to arm everyday professionals with the tools they need to overcome the global recession and create a prosperous future.
His latest book How to Speak Money, co-authored with CNN’s Christine Romans, helps readers become fluent in the world’s most universal language – money. In this easy-to-read “manual,” he teaches readers about emerging international economies, how to budget wisely and build wealth, and how to plan appropriately for retirement, complete with practical executions, examples and worksheets.
Velshi is anchor of CNN International’s World Business Today, broadcast daily in prime time throughout the Middle East, Asia and India. For CNN, in addition to hosting the top-rated Your Money, Velshi reviews the top economic, global and political stories of the day and deconstructs them for prime time viewers in the U.S. and Canada to help them make the best decisions possible regarding those issues.
He is also currently writing a monthly column called “Mastering Your Money” for Money magazine, a monthly column for Delta Sky magazine, and the weekly “Ali V Podcast” available on iTunes.
Velshi has reported extensively on the global financial meltdown since 2008; the financial collapses of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and Lehman Brothers; the U.S. government’s bailout plan; the battle over the fate of the American big three automakers; and the U.S. debt ceiling and budget debate.
Velshi’s in-depth reporting for CNN’s “How The Wheels Came Off” was honored with a National Headliner Award for Business & Consumer Reporting in 2010. He also anchored CNN’s breaking news coverage of the attempted terror attack on a flight into Detroit for which the network was nominated for a 2010 Emmy and is the author of Gimme My Money Back, which released in January 2009.
A veteran of financial news, Velshi hosted The Turnaround, CNN’s small business improvement show. The Turnaround traveled across America, introducing troubled small business owners to high-profile mentors and then helped them develop a plan for success.
Prior to that, he was an anchor with CNNfn, where he hosted various interactive shows, including Your Money, Business Unusual, Insights, Street Sweep and The Money Gang.
Before joining CNNfn in 2001, he hosted The Business News, Canada’s first and only prime-time business news hour, airing nightly on Report on Business Television.
Earlier in his career, Velshi worked as a business anchor for Cable Pulse 24 and its then-sister station, CITY TV, and as a reporter for CFTO-TV, Canada’s most watched local television station.
In 1996, Velshi was awarded a fellowship to the U.S. Congress by the American Political Sciences Association, and worked with now-retired U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, (D-Ind.)
Born in Kenya and raised in Toronto, Velshi graduated from Queens University in Canada with a degree in religion.
