Ann Curry

Ann Curry is an award-winning journalist. A former NBC Network news anchor and national and international correspondent, she has reported from conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Darfur, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Kosovo, Serbia, Lebanon, and Israel; on nuclear tensions from North Korea and Iran; and from numerous humanitarian disasters, including the tsunamis in Southeast Asia and Japan, floods in Pakistan, and the massive 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Ann has conducted a long list of exclusive and news breaking interviews, which have included Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, President Ahmadinejad, President Khatami and Foreign Minister Zarif; Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and First Lady Asma al-Assad; Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto, President Ali Zadari and President Musharraf; Turkey’s President Erdogan; Sudan’s President Omar Bashir and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir; Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; Chad’s President Idriss Deby; as well as U.S. Presidents George Prescott Bush, Bill Clinton, George Walker Bush and Barack Obama, as well as then Vice-President Joe Biden and Jill Biden, Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton and First Lady Laura Bush, the Dalai Lama, Sir Edmund Hillary, George Clooney, Maya Angelou, Angelina Jolie, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska, and Russia’s opposition activist Yulia Navalnaya, among others. She was given the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement in Journalism award in 2022. She has national news Emmys for her reporting along with numerous Murrow, Gracie and National Headliner Awards. Ann has also been given a number of humanitarian awards and has supported the work of UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, for many years. She became a High-Profile Supporter for the organization in 2024. Ann is a Poynter Fellow on Journalism at Yale University, and has been a Sine Fellow at American University.