Christiane Amanpour Biography

Christiane Amanpour CBE a British-Iranian foreign correspondent and television host. She works as CNN’s Chief International Anchor and host of Amanpour’s regular interview program for CNN International

She began working in the news department at WBRU-FM in Providence, Rhode Island, and as well worked as an electronic graphics designer for NBC affiliate WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island. She is also Amanpour & Company’s anchor on PBS as well as an ABC News Global Affairs Anchor.

Christiane Amanpour Age

Amanpour was born on 12 January 1958 in London, United Kingdom.

Christiane Amanpour CNN

She is the foreign lead anchor of CNN’s award-winning, flagship global affairs show “Amanpour,” which is also broadcast on PBS in the U.S. She is based in the network’s London bureau.

She has begun working in Cnn in 1983 as an entry-level assistant on the international assignment desk at CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta, she rose through the organization and become a reporter at the New York bureau, and then the network’s leading international correspondent.

In 2009 “Amanpour” was launched, where she spoke to a raft of leaders and decision-makers on the things affecting the world today. She has secured exclusive interviews with global power players throughout her time in Cnn.

She has reported from the aftermath of many humanitarian crises like the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the 2011 Hurricane Katrina and Japanese tsunami, where she visited a community center which had been converted to a makeshift morgue for victims of the storm.

Christiane Amanpour Pbs

Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent, hosts this half-hour weekly interview program with each episode focusing on a newsworthy subject and featuring guests, from global leaders to heads of state and cultural icons, who are confident questioning conventional wisdom.

Christiane Amanpour: Sex & Love Around the World

Amanpour turns her attention to the shifting dynamics of friendship, passion, and pleasure in an increasingly complex world after a career established as a foreign correspondent and anchor. Amanpour travels to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East in this six-part series to meet everyday people who form the idea of modern love. How do the roles of gender, romance, marriage, family, and divorce shift for both men and women?

Christiane Amanpour Shows

• 2018 Christiane Amanpour: Sex & Love Around the World
• 2018 Amanpour on PBS
• 2018 Amanpour and Company
• 2012 Back to the Beginning With Christiane Amanpour
• 2009 Amanpour
• 2007 CNN Special Investigations Unit
• 1999-2005 60 Minutes II
• 1981 This Week
• 1968 60 Minutes
• 1953 ABC World News Tonight

Christiane Amanpour Book

• The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane
• Amanpour-and the (Ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated)
• Triumph of Women in TV News
• Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting
• from the Arab World
• The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women’s Rights
• Our Shoes, Our Selves: 40 Women, 40 Stories, 40 Pairs of Shoes
• 44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World
• Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend
• Magna Brava. Die Magnum- Fotografinnen.
• Diane Sawyer (Women of Achievement)
• Christiane Amanpour Salary
• She earns an annual average salary of around $2 million.

Christiane Amanpour Net Worth

Amanpour, has an estimated net worth of $12.5

Christiane Amanpour Awards

Amanpour has earned every major award for journalism on television, including 11 News and Emmy Documentary Awards, four Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards and the Courage in Journalism Award.

She earned nine honorary degrees, was appointed CBE (a British award granted by the Queen of England, Commander of the British Empire’s Most Excellent Order) and was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame this year. She is a Sarajevo honorary citizen, and a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Press Freedom and Journalists Protection.

Christiane Amanpour Education

Amanpour enrolled for boarding school in England after completing the larger part of her primary school education in Iran. She attended Holy Cross Convent, an all-girls school in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, and then New Hall School, a Roman Catholic school in Chelmsford, Essex, at age 16.

She then relocated to the United States to study journalism at Rhode Island University, after leaving New Space. She graduated with a B.A. from the university summa cum laude in 1983 and Phi Beta Kappa. Graduated in Journalism.

Christiane Amanpour Family

Amanpour was born to Mahmoud Amanpour, an Iranian and Patricia Hill, is English. She is natively fluent in English and Persian and married to a Jewish American. She is an American, British, and Iranian. Captain Nasrollah Amanpour, an uncle of Amanpour, was married to Khosrow and Nader’s younger sister.

She is the niece (by marriage) of General Nader Jahanbani, who had led the Imperial Iranian Air Force for almost 20 years before he was executed by Islamic Revolutionaries in 1979, and of his younger brother Khosrow, married to Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi.

Christiane Amanpour Husband

Amanpour was married to American James Rubin, a former US Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for the US State Department. The duo first met in 1997 in Bosnia, where Ms. Amanpour was on assignment and Mr. Rubin was traveling with Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright. The couple married on August 8, 1998.

Christiane Amanpour Wedding

Amanpour and her husband wedding was conducted by Rev. Ambrose O’Farrell, a Roman Catholic priest at the Church of Santo Stefano in Bracciano, Italy. Later in the day, Rabbi Guy D. Hall performed a Jewish ceremony at Castello Orsini-Odescalchi.

Her X-husband was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Rubin of Larchmont, N.Y. His father is the president of Pindar Press, a magazine company in New York that publishes Summer and Winter Olympics guides. Judith Rubin, the mother of the bridegroom, works at the Bronx Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she teaches psychiatric-specialized students to perform interviews. The couple divorced in 2018.

Christiane Amanpour Son

Amanpour has a son Darius John Rubin, born in 2000 from her marriage with Rubin.

Christiane Amanpour House

Amanpour shared that, she wakes up at 7 a.m., and the first thing she does is have a hot cup of boiling water with lemon. She then gets a cup of coffee. Before leaving the house, she feeds her dog and takes him out quickly around the block for his first walk.