Melissa Chan is a national and foreign affairs broadcast reporter. She was a correspondent for Al Jazeera America, covering stories on social justice, the economy, the environment, and the rural American West. With Al Jazeera English, she served as China correspondent for five years before her expulsion from the country in 2012 for the channel’s reports. Her work has received a number of awards, including two Human Rights Press Awards, the Asian Television Award, and a nod from the Overseas Press Club. She has also reported from Cuba, Canada, South Korea, North Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mongolia, Moscow, Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Gaza.
Chan is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In the 2012-2013 academic year, she was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She graduated from Yale University and has an MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics.
