Christiane Amanpour

Christiane Amanpour is CNN's chief international correspondent and anchor of Amanpour, a nightly foreign affairs program on CNN International, which started in April 2012. Previously, she was the global affairs anchor for ABC News, providing international analysis of important issues of the day for ABC News programs and platforms, and anchoring primetime documentaries on international subjects. Before that, she anchored the ABC News program This Week. She is based in London. Amanpour began her career as a journalist at CNN in 1983 as an entry-level assistant on the network's international assignment desk in Atlanta. She worked her way up to correspondent in CNN's New York bureau before becoming an international correspondent in 1990. Amanpour graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor of arts in journalism.