Ali Aslan keynote speaker

Ali Aslan's international career in broadcast journalism spans more than two decades and three continents and includes work for CNN in Washington DC, ABC News in New York, Channel News Asia in Istanbul and Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin.

Throughout his career, Aslan has hosted numerous international TV talk shows with a global audience, often reaching over 100 countries and more than 100 million viewers weekly worldwide.

Aslan is also one of the world’s most sought-after moderators and Masters of Ceremonies of high-level international conferences & summits, including for the UN, the G20, the EU, the World Bank, the IMF and the OECD.

Aslan has interviewed and shared the stage with numerous presidents, prime ministers, CEOs, Nobel Prize winners and leading personalities from all over the world, including US President Bill Clinton, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellors Olaf Scholz and Angela Merkel, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, King Felipe of Spain, US Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, Philanthropist Melinda Gates and Environmental pioneer Jane Goodall.

Aslan earned two masters degrees in International Relations and Journalism from Columbia University in New York and a bachelor's degree in International Politics from Georgetown University in Washington DC.