Andrew Stevens is an award-winning journalist, international event moderator, and media advisor based in Hong Kong. As a former presenter and foreign correspondent for CNN International, he spent over two decades covering major news and business stories across the Asia-Pacific region.
Today, Andrew works internationally as a keynote speaker, panel moderator, and emcee for global business summits and policy forums. Leveraging more than 30 years of experience in broadcast journalism and financial news, he also advises senior executives on crisis communications, media strategy, and message delivery.
During his tenure with CNN, Andrew led coverage on defining events across Asia. In 2014, he reported on Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement and the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. In 2013, he was the only Western journalist on the ground in Tacloban when Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines—coverage that earned CNN the prestigious Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for Best International News Story. As anchor of CNN's BizAsia, he also won an Asian Television Award for Best Business Programming.
Over his career, Andrew has interviewed prominent global political and business figures, including Alibaba founder Jack Ma, Dalian Wanda Chairman Wang Jianlin, and former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Originally from Australia, Andrew began his career as a financial journalist with the Australian Financial Review. He served six years in London as Economics Editor for the Press Association before moving to Hong Kong in 1993, where he worked as Financial Editor of the South China Morning Post and Senior Correspondent for CNBC Asia prior to joining CNN in 1999.
