Frank Sesno is an Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than thirty years of experience reporting from around the world. Well known as bureau chief, anchor, White House Correspondent and talk show host on CNN, he is also a nationally renowned moderator who has engaged some of the world’s leading personalities, and he appears regularly on U.S. and international media.

Frank has interviewed heads of state including five U.S. Presidents and many other influential figures such as Benyamin Netanyahu, Condoleezza Rice, Anderson Cooper, Karl Rove, Bill Gates, Walter Cronkite, Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell. He has interviewed Nobel prize-winning scientists, renowned economists, Hollywood celebrities, CEOs, best-selling authors and leaders from a wide range of industries.

He is widely quoted and active across media, appearing on television and radio around the world on CNN, BBC, NPR, CBC, Australian television, Al Jazeera and Chinese Television. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Politico and many others have turned to Frank for his observations and analysis. Frank hosts an annual Chesapeake Bay Summit with Maryland Public Television and recently narrated two feature-length documentaries, The Limits of Hope: Inside Obama’s White House (2016) and My Dear Children (2017), a film about “faith, family and tragedy” resulting from pogroms after the Russian Revolution.

Frank currently serves as Director of Strategic Initiatives at The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs, where he also teaches classes on the art of the interview, journalism ethics, documentary and sustainability reporting. He was previously the school's director for 11 years, leading SMPA's nearly two dozen world-class faculty.

He created PlanetForward.org, a multi-platform project that brings students and experts together to examine sustainable innovations that “move the planet forward.” The project is headquartered at the School of Media and Public Affairs.