Andrew Stevens is an anchor and correspondent based at CNN’s Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong. He has been covering news on three continents for the past 25 years and co-anchors CNN’s live daily business show, WORLD BUSINESS TODAY produced out of Hong Kong, London and New York.
Stevens has reported on the most significant news stories from across the Asia Pacific region including the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan earthquake, and the Beijing 2008 Olympics. He anchored the network’s weeklong live programming from Mumbai titled ‘INDIA MEANS BUSINESS’, reporting from sites around the city and interviewing key business leaders.
Other landmark news events and stories he has reported on include CNN’s award-winning coverage of the Iraq war and the Asian tsunami, in addition to special reports for CNN on the social, political and economic development of Asia.
In the business arena, Stevens covers business leaders, companies and economies across Asia and around the world. He has been reporting on significant economic and business developments since the 1987 stock market crash. He offers regular analysis on screen and in business blogs and interviews. He has also hosted CNN’s THE BOARDROOM MASTERCLASS, taking a weekly business interview segment in front of a live audience at a number of top international business schools. He interviewed Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz in Shanghai, and media titan and head of Sirius Satellite Radio, Mel Karmazin in New York City.
Stevens was previously anchor of the award-winning BizAsia, having joined CNN in Hong Kong as an anchor/correspondent in 1999.
He has spent the past 15 years in Asia. Prior to joining CNN he was a senior correspondent for CNBC Asia and financial editor of the South China Morning Post newspaper in Hong Kong.
He spent six years in London as the economics correspondent for the Press Association and an editor at the Guardian newspaper before coming to Hong Kong.
He began his journalism career in his native country of Australia and was a correspondent for the Australian Financial Review.
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