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Canadian announcer (born c. 1968)

Ali Velshi
Velshi at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2019
Born	(1968-10-29)October 29, 1968 or 1969 (historic period 54–53) Nairobi, Kenya
Alma mater	Queen's University
Occupation(s)	Circulate announcer, author
Agents	N.Southward. Bienstock, New York (literary) Greater Talent Network (speaking)
Notable credits	American Morning time Anderson Cooper 360° The State of affairs Room Your Money Real Coin with Ali Velshi Ali Velshi on Target Velshi & Ruhle
Championship	Anchor Chief Business Correspondent
Relatives	Murad Velshi (father) Shaf Keshavjee Mohamed Keshavjee
Website	alivelshi.com

Ali Velshi (born October 29, 1968 or 1969) is a Canadian tv journalist, a senior economic and business concern correspondent for NBC News since October 2016. He was also substitute anchor for Top Story with Tom Llamas on NBC News Now at weeknights and The Terminal Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC at Friday night. Velshi is based in New York City. Known for his work on CNN, he was CNN's Primary Business organization Contributor, anchor of CNN's Your Coin and a co-host of CNN International's weekday business show Globe Business Today. In 2013, he joined Al Jazeera America, a channel that launched in August of that year.^[i] He hosted Ali Velshi on Target until Al Jazeera America ceased operations on Apr 12, 2016. He has worked for MSNBC since October 2016.^[two]

Personal life [edit]

Velshi was born in Nairobi,^[3] Kenya, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, after moving there in 1971. He is an Ismaili Muslim of Gujarati Indian descent.^{[4] [5]} He is the son of Murad Velshi, the get-go Canadian of Indian origin elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and his married woman, Mila, also Indian, who grew upwards in South Africa. Velshi's parents operated a bakery in South Africa, but moved to Kenya in 1960, when Apartheid became oppressive. In Toronto, Velshi's parents operate a chain of travel agencies.

Velshi attended Toronto's Northern Secondary School, where he was elected school president. He then earned a degree in religious studies^[6] from Queen's Academy in Kingston, Ontario, in 1994.^[7] During his time at Queen'due south he fabricated news by organizing protests against Preston Manning and Canada's Reform Party. In 2010, he was awarded the Queen's University Alumni Achievement Laurels.^[8] In 2016, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws by his alma mater.^[9]

Velshi was married briefly in his twenties. In 2009, he married his second wife, New York–born hedge fund manager Lori Wachs,^[10] the president of Philadelphia-based Cross Ledge Investments, whom he met when she was a invitee on his show. The couple have one child together, a daughter.^[eleven] Velshi divides his time between an apartment in New York City and his abode in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.^[12]

Career [edit]

In 1996, Velshi was awarded a fellowship to the U.s.a. Congress from the American Political Science Clan. In this chapters he worked with Lee H. Hamilton, then a Democratic Representative from Indiana.^[six]

Television set [edit]

In Toronto, Velshi began his professional person reporting career every bit a General Assignment reporter for CFTO. He subsequently became a business reporter and anchor for CablePulse 24 and its then sister station CityTV. In 1999, he joined Written report on Business concern Television, (now BNN Bloomberg - Business News Network) Canada'due south get-go all-business organisation news specialty channel. Velshi hosted The Business concern News, Canada'south first prime number-time business news hour.

CNN [edit]

Velshi moved to the U.S. in September 2001, joining business organization news aqueduct CNNfn in New York Urban center. He anchored several shows, including Insights, Business Unusual, Street Sweep, and Your Money, and co-hosted The Money Gang with Pat Kiernan before the network airtight downwards in December 2004. Reassigned to the primary CNN network, he remained a business organisation ballast and reporter posted initially to CNN'southward early-morning program Daybreak. In 2005, Velshi hosted 13 hour-long episodes of The Turnaround, a reality boob tube show, during which he traveled beyond America introducing small business organisation owners who were facing challenges or seeking to grow their businesses to high-profile mentors who helped the modest business owners develop a plan for success.^[13] Later on The Turnaround, Velshi was assigned to the newly launched The State of affairs Room from 2005 to 2006. Velshi joined American Morning time every bit business contributor in late 2006 and then over again as co-anchor in 2011. In 2008, Velshi undertook a cross-country route trip aboard the CNN Election Express, during which he travelled from Myrtle Embankment, Southward Carolina, to Los Angeles, California, stopping along the way to discuss money issues with Americans. Velshi also spent 10 days riding the CNN Election Limited through rural Texas earlier that land's March 4, 2008, primaries.

Velshi regularly was a substitute anchor for CNN/U.S. programs such every bit American Morning. On Sabbatum and Dominicus he co-hosted a business program called Your Money. Velshi besides hosted CNN's Free energy Hunt, which took him to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and to the Oil Sands of Canada in 2008. Tragic events during 2008 brought Velshi more airtime, including reporting from the at present-destroyed Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan,^[fourteen] after the killing of Benazir Bhutto.^[15] During coverage of Hurricanes Gustav^[sixteen] and Ike, Velshi appeared on air, on location from hurricane-stricken areas, every bit the storms hit. Velshi'south hurricane reporting started in 2005 during Katrina, nigh which he reported live during the evacuation of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico then from damaged oil facilities in Eastern Texas and Southern Louisiana.

During the financial crisis of 2007–2008, Velshi again appeared on television oftentimes throughout the day on shows like American Morning and Anderson Cooper 360° and took viewers' alive calls during special editions of Your Money and during his weekly call-in radio testify. Until leaving CNN, Velshi co-hosted the market place opening edition of Earth Business Today on CNN International.^[17]

Beingness Muslim, Velshi regularly acknowledges his background and perspective when discussions involve Islam. Velshi has strongly defended the Muslim community's correct to build a mosque and Islamic center (Park51) near Ground Zip in New York Metropolis.^[18] Velshi has also been critical of Peter Male monarch'due south hearings on Islamic radicalization in the United States every bit a grade of Islamophobia, branding Rex equally "naive". Velshi supports the separation of mosque and state and rejects "Political Islam", which requires the implementation of Sharia police force.^{[nineteen] [twenty]} He has been in turn accused of downplaying the role that mainstream Islamic jurisprudence, scholarship, and interpretation play in the evolution and awarding of Islamic extremism and branding negative statements about Islam equally biased.^{[21] [22] [23]}

Al Jazeera America [edit]

On April iv, 2013, it was announced that Velshi would be leaving CNN to join Al Jazeera America to host a weekly 30-minute magazine-mode prime-time program called Real Money with Ali Velshi.^[24] He was the kickoff on-air personality to be hired for the new aqueduct.^[25] The channel stated that it hoped that Velshi's show would initially get-go off as a weekly evidence and become a daily show past the finish of the twelvemonth.^[26] Real Money with Ali Velshi launched on August twenty, 2013, as a daily weekday show. On May 12, 2015, the show relaunched as Ali Velshi on Target. This show ended in April 2016 when Al Jazeera America close down.

MSNBC and NBC [edit]

Velshi joined MSNBC in Oct 2016,^[27] with additional duties at MSNBC's parent news sectionalization, NBC News, for which he serves as Business Contributor.

Velshi initially co-anchored the 1:00 PM ET MSNBC news programme Velshi & Ruhle with Stephanie Ruhle, every bit well as having his own iii:00 PM ET news plan MSNBC Live with Ali Velshi. Velshi was besides appointed as the fill-in host of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on Friday edition.

However, in December 2019, Velshi was moved to weekend mornings with his own show called simply Velshi, a 2-hr solo act. He continues to substitute for other hosts in the weekday evening lineups.^[28]

Writings [edit]

Velshi is represented by the New York literary agency N.S. Bienstock and by speaking agency Greater Talent Network. His first volume, Gimme My Coin Back: Your Guide to Beating the Fiscal Crunch, was published on Jan 2, 2009. His 2d book, How to Speak Coin: The Linguistic communication & Knowledge Yous Demand At present, co-authored by longtime friend and co-ballast Christine Romans, was released past John Wiley & Sons in November 2011. Velshi has written monthly columns for both Money and Delta Sky mag.

Awards and recognition [edit]

In 2010, Velshi was awarded the Queen's Academy Alumni Achievement Award; the highest award given to Queen's University alumni. Besides in 2010, Velshi's in-depth reporting for CNN's "How the Wheels Came Off" nigh the almost collapse of the U.S. Machine Manufacture was honored with a National Headliner Laurels for Business & Consumer Reporting. Velshi anchored CNN'due south global breaking news coverage of an attempted terror attack on a Delta flight into Detroit on Christmas Mean solar day 2009, for which CNN was nominated for a 2010 Emmy honor. Velshi was nominated for 2 additional News & Documentary Emmy awards in 2015 for his contributions at Al Jazeera, including coverage of depression wages paid to disabled American workers and a scandal involving cherry-calorie-free cameras in Chicago. In 2017, Velshi was named an honorary "Canada 150" Ambassador to aid promote activities and events mark the 150th anniversary of Canada's Confederation. Velshi was named a Poynter Boyfriend in Journalism at Yale University and accordingly participated in a chat with students, faculty, and members of the community at Yale University's Jonathan Edwards College in 2017. Besides in 2017, Velshi delivered a TEDx talk entitled "How Fake News Grows in a Post Fact World."

Honorary Degrees [edit]

Honorary degrees

Location	Date	School	Degree	Gave Commencement Address
Ontario	7 June 2016	Queen's University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [29]	Yes [xxx]

Pop civilization [edit]

Referencing Velshi's signature bald pate, the comedian Jon Stewart has referred to Velshi as the "Hairless Prophet of Doom" on The Daily Show,^[31]—the "H-POD" moniker is now oft repeated by others.

Stephen Colbert referred to Velshi every bit "CNN'southward business reporter from our hairless, raceless future" on an episode of The Colbert Report wherein he discussed the 2007–2008 financial crunch.

In addition to actualization on The Daily Testify, Velshi appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Bear witness on Oct three, 2008, during the global financial crisis and on The View on Feb four, 2009, afterwards the launch of his first book on the crunch.

Velshi played himself in the 2010 Oliver Stone moving picture Wall Street: Coin Never Sleeps.

During the recurring intro segment of Homeland (season seven)^[32] at the xxx 2d-marker, there is an audio prune of Velshi saying, "...the mood of the land. Information technology'southward not great...". This audio prune was taken from the August 30, 2017, edition of MSNBC's The 11th Hour (news program) when Velshi was a guest host. His full transcript was: "A new Flim-flam News poll gives united states of america an fifty-fifty closer look at the mood of the country. It'south not corking."^[33]

Memberships and non-profit work [edit]

Velshi is a member of the Quango on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York,^[34] the New York Fiscal Writers Association, The Paley Center for Media, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago History Museum, a member of the Lath of Trustees of Seeds of Peace, and a member of the Grand Challenges Advisory Commission of the National Academy of Applied science. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the Ten Prize Foundation, which is a not-profit organization that designs and manages public competitions intended to encourage technological development that could benefit humanity.^[35]

Encounter as well [edit]

• Broadcast journalism
• Gujarati people
• Indians in the New York City metropolitan region
• New Yorkers in journalism

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ali Velshi.

• Official website
• Ali Velshi at IMDb
• Real Money with Ali Velshi
• Samantha Ettus interviews Ali Velshi
• Ali Velshi on Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG, November 17, 2014

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