Ellana Lee

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(journalist)
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BornSouth Korea
NationalityUS
Alma materNew York University, Georgetown University
EmployerCNN
Member ofCouncil on Foreign Relations/Members 2, WEF/Young Global Leaders/2008

Ellana Lee is Senior Vice President & Managing Editor, Asia Pacific, for CNN International, and Global Head of Features Content for CNN International and CNN Digital, a position she has held since 2011[1]. She is based in the network's Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong. She is CNN's most senior executive outside of the United States, helping to drive the network's business outside the United States.[2]

She was selected a Young Global Leader in 2008 by the World Economic Forum, and per 2021 sits on the board of the Young Global Leaders Foundation.[3]


The biggest decisions we make are about what we decide not to cover. It requires a real discipline, some instinct, and years of learning lessons from mistakes. I’ve made many.[4]

Career

She grew up in a South Korean elite family. Talking of her family: "Despite their growing up in South Korea in the 1960s— a very conservative society at a very conservative time — my grandfather allowed my mother to go to the United States to study." [5]

She herself grew up in 1980s South Korea, but moved to the US to study. She holds a Master's degree in Broadcast Journalism from New York University and an undergraduate degree in History and International Relations from Georgetown University.[2]

Lee has worked at CNN for a long time, beginning in New York as a producer to help launch the program 'In The Money'. She subsequently worked as a business producer and a senior planning producer, coordinating major events out of the Asia-Pacific region.[2]

She has traveled to North Korea several times and in mid-2017 made an exclusive report called Secret State: Inside North Korea. She is a graduate of Harvard's 'Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century' Executive Program. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. [2]


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
WEF/Annual Meeting/201126 January 201130 January 2011World Economic Forum
Switzerland
2230 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality".
WEF/Annual Meeting/201323 January 201327 January 2013World Economic Forum
Switzerland
2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity"
WEF/Annual Meeting/201422 January 201425 January 2014World Economic Forum
Switzerland
2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/201717 January 201720 January 2017World Economic Forum
Switzerland
2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
WEF/Annual Meeting/201922 January 201925 January 2019World Economic Forum
Switzerland
WEF/Annual Meeting/202021 January 202024 January 2020World Economic Forum
Switzerland
This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
WEF/Annual Meeting/202316 January 202320 January 2023World Economic Forum
Switzerland
The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World"
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