14 Facts About Richard Quest

Richard Austin Quest was born on 9 March 1962 and is a British journalist and non-practising barrister working as a news anchor for CNN International.

Richard Quest was educated at the state comprehensive Roundhay School in Leeds, followed by Airedale and Wharfedale College and the University of Leeds, where he earned a Bachelor of Laws in 1983, and was called to the Bar.

Richard Quest became a trainee journalist at the BBC in 1985, joining its financial section in 1987, and moving to New York City in 1989 to become the BBC's North American business correspondent.

Richard Quest later worked for the BBC from the United States as part of its then-fledgling BBC News 24 channel.

Richard Quest was an occasional presenter on the BBC's early-morning Business Breakfast programme.

Richard Quest joined CNN in 2001, initially as co-presenter of newly-launched programme Business International.

Since this time Richard Quest has covered a variety of different events for CNN, among others an analysis of the US elections as American Richard Quest and the start of the circulation of Euro banknotes and coins on 1 January 2002 and the last official commercial flight of Concorde.

Richard Quest has headed up CNN's coverage of several events involving the British Royal Family.

In 2006, Richard Quest turned down an opportunity to join Al Jazeera English news channel, the English language version of al-Jazeera, "on the grounds that being gay and Jewish might not be suitable".

Richard Quest was replaced by Dan Harris for the show's second season.

On 8 June 2015, Richard Quest appeared as a contestant on The CNN Quiz Show: The Seventies Edition special produced by Eimear Crombie, along with his partner Brooke Baldwin playing for StandUp for Kids.

Richard Quest is an Aviation Correspondent for CNN, and extensively covered the story of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on 8 March 2014.

Richard Quest later wrote the book, The Vanishing of Flight MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane, published by Penguin Random House on 8 March 2016.

On 26 June 2014, Richard Quest described his past experience as a closeted gay man on his CNN television programme Richard Quest Means Business.