Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is an Emmy-nominated journalist, producer and actor working as a Senior Correspondent with AJ+. Ahmed has worked for VICE on HBO, Al Jazeera English, The New York Times, The Huffington Post and PBS, but may be best known for creating and co-hosting Al Jazeera English’s flagship show “The Stream,” an award-winning interactive talk show nominated for an Emmy award for Most Innovative Program in 2012.
In 2015 Ahmed joined VICE on HBO as a correspondent on six stories on their groundbreaking, award-winning documentary series VICE on HBO. In 2015 and 2016, he was featured on the Arabian Business power list of the planet’s 100 most influential young Arabs.
In 2012, Ahmed helped launch the award-winning HuffPost Live for the Huffington post where he produced and hosted World Brief, a 30 minute interactive global news shoW AND WAS featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list of ‘young disruptors, innovators & media entrepreneurs impatient to change the world’.
Before joining Al Jazeera English in 2009, Ahmed helped launch the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar where he worked as a Correspondent and led the site's editorial content AND before that he was in New York working as a Digital Producer at PBS’s award-winning series Wide Angle, a videographer for FRONTLINE/World before joining The New York Times foreign desk.
In 2009, Ahmed began teaching digital media courses as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School Of Journalism, his alma mater, where he graduated with honors in 2007. In 2013, Ahmed published his first book, 'Demanding Dignity'.
Ahmed's is passionate about telling stories that connect people across boundaries and borders that separate them. He appears as a commentator for CNN, NBC, BBC, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, Yahoo and other platforms and is often invited to speak at leading media, technology, and ideas conferences around the world, including the UN, World Economic Forum, SXSW, Aspen Ideas Festival & Google Zeitgeist. In 2013, the Network of Arab-American Professionals honored him with the 2013 Professional Excellence Award.