bloomberg journalists involved in qatar summit 2021

 lead qatar journalist zain verjee also led africa interviews

An Africa Recovery Plan

In conversation with Zain Verjee, Host and Executive Producer, Qatar Economic Forum

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From Rwanda to the World -anyone can get visa on arrival

In conversation with Zain Verjee, Host and Executive Producer, Qatar Economic Fourm

• Clare Akamanzi,.  - see kagame interview - interesting rwanda one of 3 vaccination productio plans for adrica with sourg h afrca and senegal- rwanda lead partner in health teaching hospital; first ewtp nation in africa with jack ma..

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Zain Verjee

Host and Executive Producer
Qatar Economic Forum

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Zain Verjee is one of the world’s most respected and recognized journalists, with an action-packed background and experience as a storyteller, entrepreneur, communicator, and interviewer. She is well known as a former CNN anchor and correspondent, and has made a successful transition into the world of communications and creative entrepreneurship.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, she created covidHQafrica.com in partnership with MasterCard Foundation, which is a storytelling, data and information site for Africa. 

Her communications firm, Zain Verjee Group, has worked with a deep lineup of organizations and entities such as Bloomberg Media, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Pfizer Inc., Equity Group Foundation of Kenya, the GAVI Vaccine Alliance, the World Health Organization, General Electric Africa, Morocco’s OCP, The Aga Khan Development Network, the African Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa on their communications and public relations delivery and strategies via advisory, consulting, and content production. She is a highly sought after facilitator and interviewer, and has spoken on platforms such as TED and Africa House.  She is a senior fellow (non-resident) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Africa Program.  She is a guest opinion columnist on African issues for The National, UAE.

Zain is also a startup founder and content creator, co-founding aKoma Media, a continental network of workspaces for Africa’s creative and cultural economy, in 2015. Her other ventures in the creative space include Amplify, a content creator fellowship with participants from East/West Africa and the US, in partnership with MasterCard Foundation. In addition, with her former colleague and CNN anchor Isha Sesay, Zain launched Rouse, an immersive three day gathering event for a community of women in Africa and the diaspora in 2019. Zain is a key member to the media advisory committee for Africa No Filter, and also Board Chair for the Kenya-based conservation organization, Wildlife Direct. 

Zain resides in the Los Angeles area and Nairobi, Kenya. Her versatility and charisma have been a great asset for her in her post anchor life and entrepreneurial ventures. She enjoys creative writing, swimming butterfly, riding horses and is currently training for a half marathon.

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asia jounalists at bloomberg/qatar june 2021

 

Shery Ahn

Anchor
Bloomberg Television

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Shery Ahn is the New York-based anchor for Bloomberg Television’s flagship market open programs “Daybreak Asia” and “Daybreak Australia.” Every weekday from 6-9pm ET, Ahn brings the Wall Street close to Bloomberg’s global audience and kick starts the trading day for investors in Asia, setting up the agenda for the opens in Europe and the Middle East.

Ahn was raised in Bolivia and speaks Spanish, English, Korean and Japanese. While covering the emerging markets of Latin America, she interviewed top political leaders such as Chile’s president, Sebastián Piñera, Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos and Brazil’s Michel Temer. She has also interviewed some of the most influential figures in American and European business such as Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and US Chamber of Commerce CEO Thomas Donohue.

Before moving to New York, Ahn was based in Hong Kong where she covered key events including the G20 summit from Hangzhou and BOJ policy decisions from Tokyo. Her conversations with Asian business leaders and policymakers include Baidu’s Robin Li, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda and Tokyo’s Governor Yuriko Koike.

Prior to Bloomberg, Ahn was based in Tokyo as an anchor for Japan’s public broadcaster NHK World, where she reported live on the 2011 earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster. Ahn began her broadcast career in Seoul as a Diplomatic Correspondent covering North Korea and the Six-Party Nuclear Talks in Beijing.

Ahn graduated from Seoul National University and is currently earning an MS in Global Affairs from New York University.

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The Outlook from Asia

In conversation with Shery Ahn, Anchor, Bloomberg Television

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Yichen Zhang

Chairman and CEO
CITIC Capital

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Yichen Zhang is the Chairman and CEO of CITIC Capital Holdings Limited. Mr. Zhang began his career on Wall Street in 1987 at Greenwich Capital Markets. He later joined Bank of Tokyo as Head of Proprietary Trading, and Merrill Lynch as Managing Director of Debt Capital Market for Greater China. In 2000, he joined CITIC Group as the President of CITIC Pacific Communications and Executive Director for CITIC Pacific (now CITIC Limited). He founded CITIC Capital in 2002 and has been involved in all phases of the firm’s development since then. Under his leadership, CITIC Capital has led a number of landmark deals, investing in some of China’s leading companies, including McDonald’s China, Alibaba, Sina, Harbin Pharmaceutical, SF Express, AsiaInfo and Focus Media. He is the Chairman of McDonald's master franchised business in China & Hong Kong, the Chairman of Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Holding Company, the Chairman of GNC, as well as the Chairman of Universal Medical. He also sits on the boards of HKEX, Vanke, AsiaInfo, SF Express, and the Russia-China Investment Fund.

Mr. Zhang is a leader in the alternative investment industry. He is an Executive Committee member and former chairman of the China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA). He is also a vice chairman in Beijing Private Equity Association (BPEA), Tianjin Private Equity Association, and a vice chairman of the PE and Buyout Funds Committee under the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC).

Mr. Zhang is also a leader in political, economic and social communities. He is a member of the Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Senior Vice Chairman of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a member of the Board of Trustees at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a council member of Future Forum, and a board member of Aiyou Foundation.

He obtained his degree in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A strong believer in education, Mr. Zhang has been supporting Phillips Academy Andover as a trustee, Yale Asia Development Council as a council member, Dalton Foundation as a board member, Duke Kunshan University as an advisory board member, Westlake University as an external board member, and the Tianjin Juilliard School as an advisory board member.

 

Jason Kelly

Chief Correspondent
QuickTake Bloomberg

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Jason Kelly is the New York Bureau Chief of Bloomberg, overseeing more than 1,200 journalists at the company’s world headquarters. He is also the chief correspondent for QuickTake by Bloomberg. He is the author of Sweat Equity: Inside the New Economy of Mind and Body, published by John Wiley & Sons.

Since joining Bloomberg in 2002, he’s written about topics ranging from semiconductors to economic development during the war in Afghanistan. A frequent contributor to Bloomberg TV and host of conferences around the world, Kelly also wrote The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry that Owns Everything (2012), the product of five years leading Bloomberg’s global private equity coverage.

Kelly is a graduate of Georgetown University and lives in Sleepy Hollow, NY with his wife and children.

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David Beckham

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One of the World’s most recognized personalities, David Beckham, OBE is a sporting icon with a football career boasting over 20 years with some of the biggest clubs in the world. After retiring from playing, Beckham has established himself as a successful businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist working strategically and creatively with many of the world’s leading brands. In 2018 Beckham fulfilled a lifelong ambition to be an owner of a football club and Inter Miami CF started playing last year. In 2019, David co-founded Studio 99, a global production and content studio which currently focusses on unscripted films, series and format development. The company is also a commercial studio and produces a wide range of both editorial and advertising content for global brands. In 2020, Guild Esports was announced with David as co-owner.

Beckham has played a crucial role as Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF for nearly two decades, promoting and protecting the rights of the world’s most vulnerable children. He launched his ground-breaking 7 Fund to protect millions of children around the world from danger. David also holds the position of Ambassadorial President of the British Fashion Council, a role which sees him support emerging British talent on a global scale.

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Caroline Hyde

Anchor
Bloomberg Television

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Hyde co-hosts Bloomberg Television’s afternoon programming from 2pm-5pm ET daily from New York.

Previously Hyde co-hosted “Bloomberg Markets” from London and was the European Technology and Media correspondent for “Bloomberg Technology.” She has also served as the network’s chief European correspondent, traveling the region to report on the most important business, economic and political issues shaping global markets.

Hyde joined Bloomberg in 2008 to cover the European debt markets for Bloomberg News as a corporate finance reporter, focusing on company loans and bonds as well as sovereign debt. She covered the freeze in the European loan market following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the unraveling of the European sovereign debt crisis, as well as breaking news on the sales and performance of government bonds from Greece ahead of its bailout. Hyde has also provided in-depth reports on the London property sector, tech scene and shone a light on the European start-up community.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Hyde worked in public relations for London’s Moorgate Group, where she was a debt market specialist, managing campaigns for clients including Standard & Poor’s and Lloyds Banking Group. She holds an MA (Oxon) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.

 

Rethinking Investment in Africa

Investment flows into sub-Saharan Africa contracted in 2020 and before that, in 2019, as the pandemic spread. If private investment inflows don't return to pre-pandemic levels, the region faces a financing gap of up to $290 billion, and that could prolong economic difficulty. Mohammed Dewji discusses investment continuity in Africa.

In conversation with David Malingha, East Africa Bureau Chief, Bloomberg

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https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Mohammed_Dewji

Mohammed "Mo" Gulamabbas Dewji (born 8 May 1975) is a Tanzanian billionaire businessman and former politician. He is owner of MeTL Group, a Tanzanian ...

Net worth: $1.6 billion (January 2020)

Political party: CCM

Children: 3

Born: 8 May 1975 (age 46); Ipembe‎, ‎Singida‎, T...‎

‎Early life and education · ‎Business · ‎Politics · ‎Personal life

MeTL

http://www.metl.net

... to ending poverty in Tanzania via the establishment of two bodies: the Mo Dewji Foundation and the Group's registered non-governmental organisation.

‎Who We Are · ‎Careers · ‎Beverages · ‎Contact

 

Simone Foxman

Middle East Correspondent
Bloomberg Television

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Simone Foxman is a correspondent for Bloomberg TV. The sole reporter for Bloomberg in Qatar, Foxman plays a key role in Bloomberg’s coverage of politics, money and energy across the Middle East, both in broadcast and in print. She was previously a reporter on Bloomberg’s finance team in New York, where she broke news on hedge funds, investigated bad behavior on Wall Street, charted shifts in the asset management industry, and chronicled the successes and failures of some of the world’s most influential investors. Before joining Bloomberg in 2014, Foxman was a reporter at Absolute Return, Quartz and Business Insider. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and Middle Eastern Studies from Columbia University.