Stefano Pozzebon is an award-winning CNN contributor based in Bogota, Colombia. He has been instrumental to CNN’s coverage across Latin America, spanning from Venezuela’s struggle for democracy to the war on drugs in Colombia and the impact of climate change across the region.

Often working alone, Pozzebon single-handedly delivers reports in English and Spanish across CNN’s multiple linear and digital outputs as well as CNN’s affiliate partners around the world.

Most recently Pozzebon reported on extreme weather events in Argentina, Brazil and Colombia, and the plight of indigenous environmental defenders in Colombia’s Andean and Amazon regions.

In 2022, Pozzebon conducted the first interview with an English-language television channel with candidate Gustavo Petro ahead of his historic election as the country’s first leftwing leader.

Based in Caracas, Venezuela from 2016 to 2020, Pozzebon produced distinctive coverage that shed light on the humanitarian conditions millions of Venezuelans faced at the time. In 2019, he was the first international journalist to interview Juan Guaido, weeks before the opposition leader mounted a challenge against Nicolas Maduro and was recognized as the Venezuelan interim head of state by more than 50 countries.

Pozzebon has also reported for CNN World Sports in Latin America and Europe, including the death and funeral of Brazil’s legend Pelé in 2023 and Argentina’s victory at the 2022 FIFA World Cup from Buenos Aires.

Named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Italy list in 2017, Pozzebon was also nominated for a 2016 Livingston Award for a documentary about fake pharmaceutical trafficking in Western Africa.

Pozzebon is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese as well as his native Italian and studied International Journalism at City University, London.