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| CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR ZAIN ASHER |
CNN International’s Zain Asher will serve as the Mistress of Ceremonies for AAI’s Future Leaders Legacy Fund Awards Gala, which will be held on Tuesday, September 29 at 583 Park Avenue in New York City.
Asher will host one of the most high profile events celebrating African achievement in New York City. Proceeds from the awards gala will support the Future Leaders Legacy Fund, a new scholarship program.
Asher is host of CNNi’s ‘Marketplace Africa’, the network’s premier weekly business show about the continent and its place within global markets.She also co-anchors ‘CNN Newsroom’ with John Vause from the network’s headquarters in Atlanta.
Previously, Asher served as a CNN business correspondent based in New York, where she covered economic news from the New York Stock Exchange, U.S. Federal Reserve monetary policy and high-profile IPOs, while regularly interviewing leading CEOs and entrepreneurs.
Asher has also covered a number of general news stories from the field including the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria and from Boston following the 2013 terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon.
In addition, she has hosted panel discussions at the United Nations, London Business School, UBS and recently gave a TEDx talk in London.
Born and raised in London, Asher graduated from Oxford University where she studied French and Spanish and graduated with a distinction in oral Spanish. In 2006, she earned an MS from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She has lived and worked in Mexico, France and Nigeria and is fluent in French, Spanish and Ibo, her native Nigerian dialect.
SOURCE: AAIONLINE
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