Richard Quest is one of the most instantly recognizable members of the CNN team; covering an extensive range of breaking news and business stories, as well as feature programming, he has become one of the network’s highest profile presenters. Quest is firmly established as an expert on business travel issues and currently works as a CNN anchor and correspondent. His regular programs include ‘CNN Business Traveller’, as well as his own hour-long feature program, ‘Quest’.
Quest’s dynamic and distinctive style has made him a unique figure in the field of business and news broadcasting. During his time at CNN he has reported on many of the major news events of recent years. His coverage of breaking news, which has spanned over two decades, has seen him report on a range of stories from the Iraq War, the death of Yasser Arafat and the Lockerbie Pan Am 103 crash.
As a business travel specialist, Quest has become a voice of authority on subjects like the launch of the Airbus A380; as a news correspondent he travelled across the US to gauge public feeling in the build up to the 2004 presidential election. He anchored CNN’s coverage of the funeral of Pope John Paul II, live from Rome. Quest attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, every year, and in this, as with every case, he lends an incredible wealth of modern business knowledge to the coverage, coupled with his inimitable reporting style.
Quest has also built up an almost unparalleled reputation in the broadcasting business having been reporting on the international financial markets for the last 20 years, working in both television and radio.
The ‘Quest’ program has already amassed a large following with the CNN audience. In the short time that it’s been running Quest has reported from locations across the globe on a range of topics: from ‘Music’ to ‘Celebrity Activism’; from ‘The High Life’ to ‘Spirituality’. In tackling these subjects he has spoken to the key figures at the heart of some of today’s most important issues. These meetings include talking sport with Thierry Henry, looking at the issues facing royalty with HRH Prince Andrew, attending the Rolling Stones’ first gig in mainland China, and an intimate one-on-one with the Dalai Lama. Over the span of the ‘Quest’ program he has brought insightful reports to viewers from the places at the center of today’s key issues, talking to the people that make the news.
Prior to joining CNN he worked with the BBC, where his career in journalism began, first as a news trainee and then presenting a range of programs across their output. His work was mainly focused on business journalism, and he became a part of the Corporation’s Financial Unit in 1987. Later he was appointed to be North America Business Correspondent, based on Wall Street, covering the major financial stories of the 1990s.
Quest is British, holds an LLB (Hons) degree in Law from Leeds University, and was called to the Bar.
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