Matthew Chance — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as Chief Global Affairs Correspondent at CNN.
Covered the fall of Kabul to the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan in 2001.
Reported on the invasion of Iraq by Coalition forces in 2003.
Interviewed Vladimir Putin in August 2008.
Reported on the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Was held by forces of Colonel Gaddafi at the Rixos al Nasr hotel in Tripoli, Libya, in August 2011.
Covered the Greek government-debt crisis and Iran's nuclear program.

Biography

Matthew Chance is a British journalist and CNN's Chief Global Affairs Correspondent. He joined CNN in October 2001, replacing correspondent Steve Harrigan in Northern Afghanistan. Prior to CNN, Chance worked as a freelance journalist based in Asia.

Over two decades, Chance has reported on numerous significant global events.