Richard Quest
| Richard Quest | |
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Quest in 2014
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| Born |
Richard Austin Quest 9 March 1962 Liverpool, Merseyside, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education |
Airedale and Wharfedale College University of Leeds Vanderbilt University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) |
Business International Quest Means Business 500 Questions |
Richard Austin Quest (born 9 March 1962) is an English journalist and a CNN International anchor and reporter, based in New York City, New York.
He anchors Quest Means Business. In addition to anchoring the five-times-weekly business programme, Quest hosts the monthly programme CNN Business Traveller and CNN Marketplace Europe. He formerly anchored the monthly show Quest and the daily show CNN Today which was geared towards morning audiences in Europe.
Quest is a native of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, having been born and partly brought up there.
He was educated at the state comprehensive Roundhay School in Leeds, followed by Airedale and Wharfedale College and the University of Leeds, where he studied law, taking his degree in 1983 (Law LLB Hons.), and was called to the Bar. He had already gained broadcasting experience when he spent the 1983–84 academic year in the United States at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. As news director for campus radio station WRVU, he built the reporting staff from scratch.
Quest then became a trainee journalist at the BBC in 1985, joining its financial section in 1987, and moving to New York City in 1989 to become the BBC's North American business correspondent.
Quest later worked for the BBC from the United States as part of its then-fledgling BBC News 24 channel. He was the business correspondent reporting on, and discussing the world stock market in a regular segment entitled World Business Report usually aired between 2:00am and 3:00am (GMT), a programme that he presented alongside Paddy O'Connell. He was also an occasional presenter on the BBC's early-morning Business Breakfast programme.
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