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SUMMARY:A View from the Top with Ali Velshi\, chief business correspondent 
 and anchor of Your Money and World Business Today on CNN
DESCRIPTION: \n\nLeBow College of Business and the Rudman Institute for Ent
 ertainment\nIndustry Studies Present:\n\nA View from the Top with Ali Vels
 hi\, chief business correspondent and\nanchor of Your Money and World Busi
 ness Today on CNN\n\nDecember 3\, 2012 Discussion: 6:30 p.m. Reception: 7:
 30 p.m.\n\nConnecting the news through finance\, global issues\, contempor
 ary\ngovernance\, education and big ideas\, CNN’s Ali Velshi executes\ns
 everal roles across CNN as the network’s chief business\ncorrespondent a
 nd anchor of Your Money and World Business Today on CNN\nInternational.\n\
 nIn addition to his anchor responsibilities\, Velshi frequently reports\nf
 rom the field on breaking news events\, politics\, and in-depth\npersonal 
 profiles that offer insights into global issues. He covered\nthe impact of
  the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico\, including\nexclusive access with
  the U.S. Coast Guard on a controlled oil burn.\nHe profiled a homeowner f
 or several weeks who navigated\nPhiladelphia’s mandatory court program\,
  hoping to save his home from\nforeclosure. He spoke with Haitian Prime Mi
 nister Jean-Max Bellerive\,\nCoca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent and Inter-American 
 Development Bank\nPresident Luis Alberto Moreno in their first television 
 interview\ntogether about Operation Haiti Hope\, a significant non-aid inv
 estment\ninto Haiti after the devastating earthquake. He uncovered everyth
 ing\nit takes to fly the friendly skies with exclusive behind-the-scenes\n
 access to United Airlines’ Operations Control Center in Chicago. He\nhas
  extensively reported on the global financial meltdown since 2008\;\nthe f
 inancial collapses of Fannie Mae\, Freddie Mac\, AIG and Lehman\nBrothers\
 ; the U.S. government’s bailout plan\; the battle over the\nfate of the 
 American big three automakers\; and the U.S. debt ceiling\nand budget deba
 te.\n\nVelshi’s guests range from Joanne Herring\, the Houston business\
 nwoman and socialite portrayed by Julia Roberts in Charlie Wilson’s\nWar
 \, to White House Economic Advisors and presidential candidates\, to\nmusi
 cian and AIDS activist Annie Lennox\, to Dr. Maya Angelou\, to Ford\nCEO A
 lan Mulally\, to 11 year old Marcelas Owens\, a health care reform\nactivi
 st who lost his mother and stood next to President Barack Obama\nas he sig
 ned the health care reform bill.\n\nVelshi’s in-depth reporting for CNN
 ’s How The Wheels Came Off was\nhonored with a National Headliner Award 
 for Business & Consumer\nReporting in 2010. He anchored CNN’s breaking n
 ews coverage of the\nattempted terror attack on a flight into Detroit\, de
 livering CNN’s\nworldwide newsgathering for which the network was nomina
 ted for a 2010\nEmmy. He was also honored with a 2010 Alumni Achievement A
 ward from\nhis alma mater\, Queen’s University.\n\nPreviously\, Velshi w
 as an anchor with CNNfn\, where he hosted various\ninteractive shows\, inc
 luding Your Money\, Business Unusual\, Insights\,\nStreet Sweep and The Mo
 ney Gang. Before joining CNNfn in 2001\, he\nhosted The Business News\, Ca
 nada’s first and only prime-time\nbusiness news hour\, airing nightly on
  Report on Business Television.\n\nEarlier in his career\, Velshi worked a
 s a business anchor for Cable\nPulse 24 and sister station\, CITY TV in To
 ronto\, and as a reporter for\nCFTO-TV in Toronto\, Canada’s most watche
 d local television station.\n\nIn 1996\, Velshi was awarded a fellowship t
 o the U.S. Congress by the\nAmerican Political Sciences Association\, and 
 worked with now-retired\nU.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton\, (D-Ind.)\n\nBorn in Keny
 a and raised in Toronto\, Velshi graduated from Queens\nUniversity in Cana
 da with a degree in religion. He is a member of the\nGrand Challenges Advi
 sor Committee for the National Academy of\nEngineering. Velshi is the co-a
 uthor of How To Speak Money\, which\nreleases on November 8\, 2011\; and a
 uthor of Gimme My Money Back\, which\nreleased in January 2009.\n 
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LOCATION:Behrakis Grand Hall\, 32nd and Chestnut Streets\, Philadelphia\, P
 A 19104
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