Maryam Nemazee
British journalist
Maryam Nemazee (Persian: مریم نمازی) is a British-Iranian broadcast journalist, until recently working with Al Jazeera English. She was born in London to Iranian parents.
Career
Al Jazeera English - London
At Al Jazeera English, Nemazee is based at the European broadcast-centre, in London which is now closed, and all news programs are in Doha. There she is a presenter on the flagship-programme Newshour. Previously she worked at the main broadcast-centre in Doha.
She has interviewed some of the world's top political and business leaders, including the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker, OPEC Secretary-General Abdallah Salem el-Badri, and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde.
Bloomberg
Previously, Nemazee was a London-based anchor with Bloomberg Television, presenting on all the main programmes and conducting exclusive interviews and real-time analysis of breaking-news affecting the global markets. She covered major events from the field, including the World Economic Forum in Davos, as well as the MENASA and COMESA events, and focused on trade and investment in the Middle East and Africa.
Nemazee was also on assignment for the election of the first socialist President in France for nearly two decades, anchoring and reporting from Paris. That same year, she was in New York reporting on the US elections, in London, covering the LIBOR scandal, and fronting a programme from the Middle East on Islamic finance.
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