Richard Quest Biography
Richard Quest is an American anchor and correspondent working for CNN as an international business correspondent and host of Quest Means Business, which airs Monday to Friday at 3 pm ET / 8 pm BST. He joined the CNN news team in 2001, after previously working for BBC.
Richard Quest Career
Quest is CNN’s top international business reporter and anchor of Quest Means Business, the most authoritative show on how people make and spend money. His home base is New York, and he is one of the most well-known CNN employees. Quest is also the editor-at-large for CNN Business and often hosts “Markets Now,” a digital live financial show that airs from the floor of the NYSE every Wednesday at noon ET on CNNBusiness.com.
Quest is also the host of CNN International’s most popular monthly feature show, Quest’s World of Wonder. In this interactive travel series, he visits a new place every month and meets interesting people who show him the heart of that city. Quest Means Business, which airs on CNN International on weekdays at 3 pm ET / 8 pm BST, busts the idea that business is dull by combining serious economics with entertaining TV. CEOs and finance officials from around the world make it a point to be on QMB.
The biggest names in banking, like Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, Richard Clarida, the former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, and Robert Zoellick, the former President of the World Bank, are guests on the show. So are some of the most powerful people in business, like Satya Na of Microsoft, and European leaders, like Kristalina Georgieva, Christine Lagarde, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and former EC President Jose Manuel Barroso.
As the COVID-19 pandemic affected economies and businesses around the world, Quest regularly spoke to leaders in the pharmaceutical, technology, aviation, travel, and tourism industries. These leaders included Noubar Afeyan, chairman of Moderna, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Moncef Slaoui, former chief adviser for Operation Warp Speed, Gita Gopinath, chief economist at the IMF, and Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb.
Quest is one of a kind in the field of business radio because of his lively and unique style. He has regularly written about G20 talks and goes to the World Economic Forum every year in Davos, Switzerland. Since “Black Monday” in 1987, Quest has covered every big stock market and financial crisis. They have done so from Wall Street, London, Sao Paolo, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, among other places. Besides that, Quest is CNN’s well-known airline and aircraft reporter.
He has talked to all of the top airline executives, such as Richard Anderson, who used to be CEO of Delta and is now CEO of Qatar Airways, Scott Kirby, who is CEO of United Airlines, Tony Fernandes, who is CEO of AirAsia, Tim Clark, who is CEO of Emirates, Shai Weiss, who is CEO of Virgin Atlantic, and Guillaume Faury, who is CEO of Airbus. Some of the most important flight stories he has written about are the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in Ukraine, the crash of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, and the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
Quest wrote a book called “The Vanishing of Flight MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane.” In it, he talks about how he covered the story of MH370 for CNN from a unique point of view. You can also see Quest on CNN when they talk about big events in the UK. As the head of CNN’s coverage of the “Brexit” vote in 2016, he has kept up with the effects of the historic vote on markets, economies, and companies.
He led the channel’s coverage of the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in 2018, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations live from the banks of the River Thames in 2012, and the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in 2011. He did this because he knew so much about the British Royal Family.
In more than 30 years of covering breaking news, he has written about many different events, such as the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, the death of Yasser Arafat, the Lockerbie Pan Am 103 crash, and the death of Michael Jackson. Quest is more than just business. Few writers have had such a wide range of guests, from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to actress Joan Collins to Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy Magazine.
The 2013 UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement was given to Quest by the UN World Tourist Organization (UNWTO) in honor of his work as a business reporter covering the tourist industry. Before he joined CNN, he worked for the BBC for 12 years as a North American business reporter based on Wall Street. Quest was called to the Bar and is British. He has an LLB (Hons) in law from Leeds University.
At CNN, Scholes works alongside; Fareed Zakaria, Fredricka Whitfield, Bill Weir, Amara Walker, John Avlon, Dana Bash, David Axelrod, John Berman, Victor Blackwell, Wolf Blitzer, Kate Bolduan, Pamela Brown, Kim Brunhuber, Erin Burnett, Alisyn Camerota, Julia Chatterley, Rosemary Church, Laura Coates, Anderson Cooper, Audie Cornish, Amanda Davies, Max Foster, Bianna Golodryga, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Laila Harrak, Erica Hill, Michael Holmes, Van Jones, Brianna Keilar, Lynda Kinkade, John King, Melissa Knowles, Christina Macfarlane, John Miller, Veronica Miracle, Bianca Nobilo, Abby Phillip, Brad Parks, Andy Scholes, Don Riddell, Michael Smerconish, Boris Sanchez, Tom Sater.
Richard Quest Salary
Quest earns a salary of about $70,000-$300,000.
Richard Quest Net Worth
Quest has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which he has earned through his career as a news anchor and correspondent.
Richard Quest Age
Quest was born on March 9, 1962, in Liverpool, United Kingdom. He is 61 years old as of 2023, and he celebrates his birthday on the 9th of March every year.
Richard Quest Height and Weight
Quest stands at a height of 6 feet 2 inches tall (1.87m) and weighs 70 kgs (154 lbs).
Richard Quest Family
Quest was born in Liverpool, United Kingdom to loving parents. He was raised alongside three siblings. He has a twin sister named Caroline Quest, a director of enterprise and business development at the British University of Leicester. More information about his parents’ names will be updated when available.
Richard Quest Wife and Children
Quest is openly gay. He tied the knot with his long-time partner on October 14, 2020. They do not have any children as of now.
Richard Quest Illness
Quest contracted Covid 19 in the mid-2020. He had started to get symptoms of dry cough and fatigue and before long he realised it was Covid 19. Though he had mild symptoms, he never had breathing difficulties or loss of sense or smell. He later tested negative for the virus and positive for the antibodies, and his doctor said it won’t return. But there are days when he feels that it has returned. He continued to receive treatments and he fully recovered.
Richard Quest Books
Quest has written the book; The Vanishing of Flight MH370. It explains about the true story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane. There were 239 people on Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 when it disappeared without a sign on March 8, 2014. It seemed to disappear into the darkness of night. Where the plane went and what happened to it quickly became one of the biggest aviation riddles of our time.
Quest was one of the most important reporters who covered the story. By chance, Quest had talked to one of the two pilots a few weeks before they went missing. Here is where he starts writing an exciting story about those tense weeks in March. He tells the interesting story of an international search effort that has failed to find the plane after years of looking and tens of millions of dollars being spent.
Quest breaks down what happened in the hours after the plane went missing and the weeks and days of looking that only made people more and more hopeless. There were different reactions from authorities and reports, a lot of different theories, and the shocking fact that the plane turned around and flew the other way. He also talks about what the aviation industry needs to do to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
Richard Quest Social Media Platforms
Quest is very active on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. He has 520k followers on Twitter 42k followers on Instagram and 1.9k followers on Facebook.