Alan Friedman

Alan Friedman (; born April 30, 1956) is an American journalist, author, documentary writer and producer, TV anchor and former media and public relations executive. He was a journalist at The Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He hosted several TV programmes on Italian TV Channels Rai, La7 and Skytg24. In Italy he was also a columnist of the Corriere Della Sera and he is currently a columnist for La Stampa. For his work at the Financial Times of London he was a four-time winner of the British Press Award, the UK equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. During his career, Friedman interviewed dozens of heads of state and heads of governments. Presidents, Prime Ministers, and central bankers. Among his most famous interviews were Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. His most famous scoops were the Iraqgate scandal, which in 1992 exposed the involvement of the White House, the CIA and an Italian bank in sending weapons to Saddam Hussein, and the Montigate revelation, which in 2014 revealed that Mario Monti and Giorgio Napolitano were discussing the possibility of setting up a Monti-led government in Italy six months before the fall of Berlusconi's administration. Friedman has written and produced three documentaries: "My Way: The Rise and Fall of Silvio Berlusconi", "Milano: The Inside Story of Italian Fashion", and "Giovanni da Verrazzano: From the Renaissance to New York City." Since 2025, he has been the Director of the Lugano Global Forum, a political and economic think tank based in Lugano, Switzerland.

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