Over 25 years, Emmy Award-winning journalist Elliott Gotkine has reported for some of the world’s most trusted news outlets, including CNN, the BBC, and Bloomberg Television, covering the Middle East, Europe, South America, business and finance. He’s interviewed world leaders, including Hugo Chavez and Shimon Peres; billionaires, such as Sheldon Adelson and Patrick Drahi; and Nobel Laureates, like Mario Vargas Llosa. In 2024, he was part of the CNN team that won the Overseas Press Club of America David Kaplan award for coverage of the Israel-Hamas war Gaza.

Elliott is an in-demand emcee and moderator, hosting more than 100 conferences, roundtables, awards ceremonies, podcasts and webinars. Most of these have focused on fintech, business, technology and/or finance, though they’ve also included political debates and climate change. Recent events include: 24Fintech; Big Data & AI World; Abu Dhabi Finance Week; The Future of AI Summit; The Paris Fintech Forum; The Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain; Hong Kong Fintech Week; Sea: The Future conference; The Regulation Asia Awards; and Digibank Summit Africa.