Allan Dodds Frank, President, Overseas Press Club
Allan Dodds Frank has built a distinguished career in print and broadcast journalism, having contributed to all aspects of story telling as columnist, investigative reporter, editor, correspondent and anchor.
Frank currently serves as President of the Overseas Press Club of America, a group founded by foreign correspondents to encourage the highest standards of professional integrity and skill in the reporting of news and to educate a new generation of journalists. Additionally, he now contributes to The Daily Beast.com.
Prior, Frank served as the Financial Investigative Reporter with a focus on reporting complex white collar crime for Bloomberg News. There, he helped lead coverage of Bernard Madoff, the AIG collapse, court cases against former NYSE CEO Richard Grasso, Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski as well as broke news on Refco and Bawag that revealed how fraud helped collapse the biggest U.S. commodities firm and created turmoil in European banking.
Frank also served as Anchor and Senior Correspondent for CNN and CNNfn. During his tenure with the news network, he covered lead breaking stories primarily fo "Moneyline with Lou Dobbs." He was on the ground reporting from the World Trade Center on 9/11 and filed investigative reports across a number of beats from terrorism to corporate corruption to financial markets. While at ABC News as a Business Investigative Correspondent, Frank's stories - largely specialized in complex white collar crimes - appeared on a number of the network's programs among them "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," "Business World With Sander Vanocur," "Nightline With Ted Koppel," "ABC Morning News" and the ABC Radio Network. He also held tenure at Forbes, first as D.C. Correspondent and later as Associate Editor and Senior Editor out of New York City. His love for the craft began with various positions on the editorial staff at The Washington Star and The Anchorage Daily News.
Frank's work in print and broadcast has received a number of distinguished professional honors including the Gerald Loeb Award, Emmy Awards, National Headliner Awards and Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild Front Page Awards. He has also served as a judge on various National Press Club and Overseas Press Club awards programs and has been an active member of the New York Financial Writers' Association, Sigma Delta Chi and White House Correspondents Association.
Frank earned a Master of Studies in Law as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Journalism from Yale Law School, a Masters of Science in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University.