Ali Velshi is CNN's chief business correspondent and host of Your $$$$$, CNN's weekend business roundtable program, as well as a regular contributor and anchor for Issue #1, the network’s in-depth coverage initiative on the single issue that matters most to CNN's audience.

Velshi also hosts The Ali Velshi Show, a weekly call-in radio program on both CNN Radio and CNN.com Live and fields viewer calls three times a week for the "Help Line" segment for HLN. Online users can also listen to Velshi's podcast, "The Ali V Podcast," available at www.CNN.com/podcasting and on iTunes.

Based in New York, Velshi has covered the U.S. government's bailout plan; the financial collapses of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and Lehman Brothers; and Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, reporting on the impact of the storms on oil refineries. He covered the Enron story at every step since it hit the national spotlight in 2001, including the guilty verdicts of Enron Corp.'s founder Kenneth Lay and former chief executive Jeffrey Skilling on conspiracy and fraud charges. He reported live from Ford headquarters in Dearborn, Mich., as the company announced the layoff of 30,000 workers. He was reporting live from an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico amid evacuation calls for Hurricane Katrina.

Anderson Cooper anchors Anderson Cooper 360°, a provocative alternative on CNN/U.S. each weekday to the typical network evening newscast, going beyond the headlines to tell stories in-depth and from multiple points of view. Cooper, who joined CNN in December 2001, served as CNN’s weekend anchor before moving to prime time in March 2003 following the war in Iraq and then to a two-hour, late evening timeslot in November 2005 following Hurricane Katrina.

Since the launch of Anderson Cooper 360°, Cooper has covered nearly all of the major news events around the world. Often reporting from the scene, he spent more than a month along the U.S. Gulf Coast covering the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and has returned more than 20 times to follow the reconstruction progress. Cooper has reported multiple times from Afghanistan and Iraq, including several anniversaries of the Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraqi elections. Cooper also covered the ongoing violence in Mexico, the bombings in London and the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. He also anchored much of CNN's live coverage of the funeral of Pope John Paul II in the Vatican City in 2005 and traveled to Sri Lanka to cover the tsunami in 2004.

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. 

Anjali Rao anchors CNN’s prime-time program, World News Asia, live from the network’s Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong. She also hosts Talk Asia, CNN’s weekly flagship half-hour program that features revealing, in-depth interviews and topical discussion with leading political, business and entertainment figures from across the region. 

Since joining CNN in January 2006, Rao has consistently led CNN’s coverage from Hong Kong of the biggest regional and global stories including explosions in Jakarta, ethnic riots in Xinjiang, the US election, the attack on Sri Lankan cricketers and the death of Michael Jackson. Around the region she has reported live from locations including Beijing before and during the 2008 Olympics, India for CNN’s EYE ON INDIA week of special programming and the Philippines during a hostage crisis. 

Anna Coren is the anchor of weekday news program "World Report", broadcast live from the network's Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Hong Kong. 

Coren has been a journalist for more than a decade, reporting a broad portfolio of major international news. In her role at “World Report” to date, she has led the network’s coverage of stories including the global economic crisis; the political climate in Thailand, the disputed Iranian elections, North Korea’s nuclear tests and the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka’s long-running civil conflict between the government and the Tamil rebels. 

Becky Anderson is one of CNN's highest profile anchors and correspondents, based in London. A distinctive and versatile TV journalist, she is the anchor of CNN's flagship nightly news and business programme ‘Business International’. In addition, Anderson is regularly deployed to serve as lead anchor on location for breaking news stories.

Since joining CNN in 1999, she has covered a variety of momentous stories from around the world. In 2005, Anderson anchored from the heart of the earthquake zone, following the devastating quake that hit South Asia. She also played a lead role in the network’s extensive coverage of both the 7/7 terror attacks in London and the riots in Paris. In March 2003 Anderson travelled to Kuwait as part of the CNN’s international team in the Gulf where she played a critical role in the network’s continuous coverage of the war in Iraq from the company’s broadcast set-up in Kuwait City.

Betty Nguyen anchors the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom. Since joining the network in April 2004, Nguyen's work with CNN has taken her across the globe.

In 2008, Nguyen went undercover in Myanmar, one of the world’s most secretive countries. Her series of exclusive reports exposed how villages still lacked aid two months after Cyclone Nargis killed more than 85,000 people. She traveled to Africa in 2007 to cover the presidential elections in Sierra Leone, the political and economic crises in Zimbabwe, and apartheid-era prosecutions in South Africa.

In September 2005, Nguyen reported from the Houston Astrodome, where thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees were seeking shelter from the devastation. That same month, she went on assignment in her birth country of Vietnam to cover the deadly flooding caused by annual monsoons.

Campbell Brown anchors Campbell Brown, a daily prime-time news program that airs on CNN at 8 pm, ET. Brown, the only non-partisan cable news anchor at 8 pm, takes a common sense approach to reporting the day's news, talks to newsmakers, and moderates lively discussions and debates with those who represent all points of view.

Prior to joining CNN, Brown worked with NBC News for 11 years. While there, Brown served as co-anchor of Weekend Today. She also served as the main substitute anchor for Brian Williams and a primary correspondent for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and the weekday Today show. For NBC, she provided award-winning reporting on Hurricane Katrina and covered the last two presidential elections and the death of Pope John Paul II. Brown made several trips to Iraq to report on the Iraqi elections, abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and the trial of Saddam Hussein. She also traveled to Gaza and the West Bank to cover events in the Middle East.

Brown served as NBC News' White House correspondent during President George W. Bush's first term. She covered Bush's first presidential campaign and spent more than a month reporting from Austin, Texas, on the post-election recount story.

Charles Hodson is anchor of the CNN International daily evening business programme ‘World Business Today’. Two editions of this in-depth programme round up the day’s business and financial market news and include keynote interviews with major business players and updates on Wall Street and the European markets.

During his time with CNN's news team in London, Hodson has interviewed some of the most powerful men in European government, including the European Commission President, Romano Prodi and German Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder.

Christiane Amanpour is CNN's chief international correspondent and anchor of Amanpour., a 30-minute, daily interview program that premiered on CNN International in September 2009. She is based in New York.

In her 18 years as an international correspondent, Amanpour has reported on all the major crises from the world’s many hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans and the United States during Hurricane Katrina.

Amanpour joined CNN in 1983 as an entry-level assistant on the network’s international assignment desk in Atlanta. She worked her way up to correspondent in CNN’s New York bureau before becoming an international correspondent in 1990. Her first major assignment was the Gulf War, and she has since covered wars, famine, genocide and natural disasters around the globe.