This educational program was moderated by Dawn Kissi, a past board member of Club of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the USA (AFPC-USA Club). She is an award-winning journalist, executive producer, strategist, and entrepreneur. She co-founded Emerging Market Media, a New York-based digital-first media firm that publishes Emerging Market Views, a global platform delivering news, expert analysis, opinion and multimedia on the world’s emerging and frontier economies.

Her journalism career began in New York City and she has since reported from a number of countries covering global business, finance, and world markets. For the past decade, she has reported and produced extensively on the emerging and frontier markets and the geopolitics surrounding them, including for the global business network CNBC.com as a Special Writer/Correspondent. She has worked as a staff reporter and producer in some of the world’s prominent newsrooms as well as niche publications.

A multi-lingual, first-generation American and native New Yorker, she earned a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, was a 2020-21 Knight Bagehot Fellow and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Columbia Business School.