Ali Velshi
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Ali Velshi is a television journalist best known for his work on CNN. He is CNN's Senior Business Correspondent, and is the co-host of CNN's weekly business show, Your Money, which airs Saturdays at 1pm ET, and Sundays at 3pm ET.
Born in Kenya and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, he is the son of Murad Velshi, a business owner first in Africa and then in Canada, and the first Indian-Canadian elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Velshi is an Ismaili Muslim.
Ali Velshi earned a degree in religious studies from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. During his time at Queen's he made news organizing protests against Preston Manning and Canada's Reform Party. He previously attended Toronto's Northern Secondary School, which has produced a number of internationally successful people in the television industry.
In Toronto, Velshi worked as a reporter for CFTO and as a reporter and anchor for CablePulse 24 and its sister station Citytv Toronto. In 1999, he joined Report on Business Television, Canada's first all business news specialty channel.
In 1996, Velshi was awarded a fellowship to the United States Congress from the American Political Science Association. In this capacity he worked with Lee Hamilton, then a Democratic Representative from Indiana.
Velshi returned to the U.S. in September 2001, joining business news channel CNNfn in New York City. He anchored Your Money and The Money Gang before the network closed down in December 2004. Reassigned to the main United States CNN network, he remained a business anchor and reporter. Velshi hosted The Turnaround, a reality television show in which mentors consulted small and medium-sized businesses seeking to grow or facing challenges. He now contributes regular business segments to daily CNN/U.S. programming such as American Morning and The Situation Room, and on Saturday and Sunday he co-hosts a business program called Your $$$$$, along with the current daily program Issue #1.
Velshi is represented by the New York talent agency N. S. Beinstock, and by literary agency Metropol Literary. His first book, It's Never Too Late To Start: Practical Lessons for Creating Wealth from Middle Age Onward, is expected to be published in summer 2008.
Referencing Velshi's signature bald pate, the comedian Jon Stewart has referred to Velshi as the "Hairless Prophet of Doom" on The Daily Show, a moniker now frequently repeated by "American Morning" anchor John Roberts.
[edit] External links
- Ali Velshi, CNN.com biography
- Your $$$$$
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