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Eason Jordan
Eason Jordan is a Women for Women International's U.S. Board of Advisors Member and is the founder and CEO of Oryx Strategies, a New York-based strategic planning, communications, and media consulting company.
Eason Jordan is the Rockefeller Foundation's Senior Vice President, Connected Leaders.
An entrepreneur and executive, he previously helped launch and lead CNN, NowThis, Malala Fund, Oryx Strategies, Poll Position and Praedict.
Eason has made hundreds of working trips to more than 70 nations, including a dozen war zones on five continents, and is a long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
At CNN, he rose through the ranks to become the network's chief news executive and president of newsgathering and international networks, overseeing CNN's news coverage and international outlets, expansion and relations.
Eason later served as the founding general manager of NowThis, a groundbreaking millennial-focused mobile, social video news service. More recently, as the first director at the girls' education-focused Malala Fund, he worked as the closest adviser to Malala Yousafzai, the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and UN Messenger of Peace.
His honors include Emmy Awards, Peabody Awards, Edward R. Murrow Awards, Headliner Awards, ACE Awards, the Robert Kennedy Journalism Award, the Vanguard Award and the Livingston Award.