Christiane Amanpour is CNN’s chief international anchor of the network’s award-winning, flagship global affairs program “Amanpour,” which also airs on PBS in the United States. She is also host of “The Amanpour Hour,” a Saturday show consisting of forensic interviews with the news makers, game changers and cultural icons shaping our world. 

 

Recently she has started a new podcast, The Ex-Files, with her Ex - husband Jamie Rubin. They discuss global affairs from their perspectives as government official and journalist. And hopefully model the ability to talk about even the most divisive issues in our world, while divorced!  

Her illustrious career in journalism spans more than four decades joining CNN in 1983.  Amanpour rose through the organization becoming the network's leading international correspondent reporting on international crisis’ and interviewed most of the top world leaders. She has received every major broadcast award, including sixteen News and Documentary Emmys, four Peabody Awards, three George Polk Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards, the Courage in Journalism Award, The Columbia Journalism Award and ten honorary degrees. 

 She was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame, Broadcast & Cable Hall of Fame and The Atlanta Press Club’s Hall of Fame.  She is a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and an honorary citizen of Sarajevo.  Amanpour is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island.