Eason Jordan

Eason Jordan is an executive and entrepreneur who serves as the Rockefeller Foundation's Senior Vice President for Connected Leaders. He previously helped launch and lead CNN, NowThis, the Malala Fund and several of his own companies. At CNN, where he worked 1982-2005, he served as chief news executive and president of newsgathering and international networks. He subsequently (2005-2012) founded and headed several companies, including Oryx Strategies, Poll Position, Headline Apps and Praedict. In 2012, he joined NowThis, a digital video news service, as its founding general manager, working there for two years. He later (2014-2017) served as a director at the Malala Fund, the education-focused foundation launched by Malala Yousafzai, the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate and U.N. Messenger of Peace. He initially served as the organization's director of operations and communications and later as its director of special projects. Jordan serves on the board of trustees of the Fugees Family NGO and the advisory council of Stanford's Human Perception Lab, and he is member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the ONE Campaign. He was portrayed by the actor Clark Gregg in Live From Baghdad (2002), a film about the team of CNN journalists who covered the first Gulf War. As CNN was the only news organization broadcasting live, firsthand reports from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, for most of the war, this is widely considered the event that "put CNN on the map".