Deborah Kan

About

Deborah Kan is a new media entrepreneur, media speaker and award-winning news anchor and journalist. Founder of BeingPatient.com, Kan seeks to redefine health media by creating single-subject platforms on specific health topics elevating the patient's point-of-view and providing them with the tools to navigate a world crowded by an abundance of information. Previously Executive Producer at the Wall Street Journal, Kan launched the Journal’s video operation in Asia and grew it into a substantial operation, spanning nine countries in Asia. During this time, she created and produced global consumer technology show ‘Digits’ and spearheaded the production of several documentaries and multi-media projects in Asia. The documentary “City of Imagination: Kowloon Walled City” under her leadership, won numerous awards including a Script Howard Prize and the Society of News Design ‘Best Digital Design’ award. Kan has interviewed many world leaders and CEOs during her tenure as a journalist. Uber founder Travis Kalanick, Airbnb’s co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk and Twitter’s former CEO Dick Costolo are among technology leaders Kan obtained exclusive interviews with. Executive Producer of Video & Interviewer, Bloomberg New Economy Forum, Kan formulated the video production and website content for the NEF, a Michael Bloomberg initiative to build a community of leadership around the world’s most critical issues. Kan was previously the Managing Editor for News Deeply’s Women & Girls, launched in partnership with the Gates Foundation. Women & Girls covers important female issues in the developing world, around health, education and crisis and conflict. Prior to joining the Journal in 2011, Kan was a news anchor with Reuters Insider, Thomson Reuters proprietary news channel, where she reported extensively on the 2008 global economic crisis, China’s 2009 massive economic stimulus package and regulation reform in the aftermath of the economic crisis. Throughout her career, Kan has conducted exclusive interviews with political leaders. She was also one of few international journalists to have interviewed Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, and was the only television journalist from Asia to accompany the New York Philharmonic on their historic 2008 performance in Pyongyang, North Korea. Kan is on the board of directors of the Family Caregiving Alliance. She has also been a member of the board of managers for Hong Kong International School for the past nine years. Kan is a member of the 2008 class of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum.