Richard Quest Biography

Richard Quest is a British journalist and non-practicing barrister currently working as CNN’s foremost international business correspondent and presenter of Quest Means Business; the definitive word on how we earn and spend our money.

Richard Quest Education

Quest was educated, followed by Airedale and Wharfedale College and the University of Leeds, where he gained a Bachelor of Laws in 1983, at the State Comprehensive Roundhay School in Leeds and was called to the Bar. He spent the 1983-1984 academic year at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was WRVU’s news editor, in the United States.

Richard Quest Career

Based on New York, he is one of the CNN team’s most easily identifiable participants. Quest Means Market, which airs on CNN International on weekdays at 1600ET/2200CET, breaks the misconception that business is dull, bridging the divide between tough economics and exciting TV. CEOs and ministers of finance globally make a point of appearing on QMB.

The show’s guests included global leaders such as the Czech Republic’s David Cameron and Petr Necas; big banking figures such as Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase and Robert Zoellick, former president of the World Bank; European policymakers such as IMF boss Christine Lagarde, EC president Jose Manuel Barroso, and former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn; and some of the world’s most prominent politicians.

In the world of business broadcasting, Quest’s dynamic and distinctive style has made him a singular character. He speaks periodically from the G20 gatherings, and every year he attends the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland. After Black Monday in 1987, Quest has covered every global stock market and financial crisis and has written from main financial centers worldwide, including Wall Street, London, Sao Paolo, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

Furthermore, Quest is CNN’s proven airline and aviation correspondent. He is currently hosting the CNN Business Traveller monthly presentation, the supreme authority to make the most of doing business on the road – traveling on company time from A to B. Quest has become a figure of authority as a corporate travel expert on topics such as the arrival of the Airbus A380. The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) gave Quest the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award earlier this year for his reporting on the travel industry.

Most recently, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 via CNN/US and CNNI has been extensively covered by Search. He flew to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in April, where he had an exclusive television interview with Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia. Quest released the CNN Freedom Initiative Cocoa-nomics documentary earlier in 2014, which discussed how the chocolate industry is seeking to remove slavery from its supply chains. Quest toured cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast, accompanied by an executive vice president at Nestle, to see if any advances had been made in the war against child labor.

Quest is now the face of the presentation of important UK news incidents by CNN. In 2012, he accompanied a foreign audience live from the banks of the River Thames through the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations and used his professional knowledge of the British Royal Family to cover the 2011 marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, on the channel.

His two-decade coverage of breaking news has seen him write on a number of stories, from the death of Yasser Arafat to the crash of Lockerbie Pan Am 103 to the death of Michael Jackson. There are few journalists who have had visitors as diverse, from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the actress Joan Collins to Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy Magazine. Quest is more than just business. Prior to joining CNN, he worked for 12 years at the BBC, where he was the Wall Street-based business reporter for North America.

Richard Quest CNN

Quest works at CNN where he works alongside other famous CNN anchors, reporters, meteorologists, and sports anchors including;

1. Roland Martin
2. Sara Sidner
3. Erin Mclaughlin
4. Alex Marquardt
5. Jean Casarez
6. Dylan Byers
7. Katrina Pierson
8. Irin Carmon
9. Natasha Curry
10. Christi Paul
11. Bob Van Dillen
12. Reynolds Wolf
13. Kirsten Powers
14. Midwin Charles
15. Anderson Cooper
16. Jason Carroll
17. Josh Campbell
18. Ryan Browne
19. Pamela Brown
20. Gloria Borger

Richard Quest Age

Quest is 59 years old as of 2021. He was born on 9 March 1962 in Liverpool, United Kingdom. He celebrates his birthday on March, 9th every year.

Richard Quest Height

Quest stands at a height of 6 feet 2 inches (1.87 m).

Richard Quest Family

Quest has managed to keep his personal life away from the limelight hence he has not disclosed any information about his parents. It is also not known if Quest has any siblings.

Richard Quest Husband

Quest is openly gay. He s married to his partner Chris Pepesterny. The two got engaged in May 2019. The couple married on October 14th, 2020.

Richard Quest Net Worth

Quest has an estimated net worth of $4 Million which he has earned through being an international business correspondent and presenter of Quest Means Business.

Richard Quest Salary

Quest earns an annual salary ranging between $40,000 – $ 110,500.

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