Christiane Amanpour, CNN

Chief International

Correspondent:Christiane

Amanpour is CNN Chief

International Correspondent and one of the most honoured TV journalists in

the US. She's also said to

be the world's highest-paid

correspondent.

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An Amanpour report validates a story's

importance. She's often given entree where other reporters are neither welcomed

nor allowed. She's an authority on Islam with extensive

Middle East connections. Bill Clinton calls her

the voice of humanity; critics in the Pentagon

tag her as overly emotional

and even biased.

On June 17, 2007, Amanpour was named by

Queen Elizabeth as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, which is only

one step shy of knighthood.

Christiane Amanpour at Osama bin Laden’s compound in Hadda, near

 Jalalabad, Afghanistan

On September 21, 2009, "Amanpour," a new, half-hour weeknight interview program debuted on

CNN. "I want this show to stir the global conscience," commented Christiane Amanpour.

Amanpour was in the Baghdad courtroom on October 19, 2005

when Saddam Hussein made his

first trial appearance,

and at Hussein's initial hearing in

2004.

Time magazine has called her the most influential foreign

correspondent since Edward R. Murrow.

Personal Data:Birth - January 12, 1958 in

LondonEducation - From age 11,

attended two Roman Catholic all-girls' schools in Great

Britain. Graduated Summa Cum Laude from University of Rhode Island in 1983 with a

BA in Journalism.

Family - Married since 1998 to James (Jamie) Rubin, US State Department spokesman under

President Clinton; one son, Darius, born in 2000.

Many find it unusual that Amanpour, raised in Islamic Iran, married a man of the

Jewish faith tradition.

Growing Up Christiane Amanpour :

Born to Iranian airline executive Mohammed

Amanpour and his British wife, Patricia, her family

moved to Tehran soon after her birth. Christiane led a privileged life in Iran, and then at British boarding

schools. She studied journalism in London only because her sister backed

out of attending and couldn't obtain a tuition

refund. Her family fled Iran, and became refugees, in 1979 during the Islamic

Revolution. Shortly thereafter, Amanpour

moved to Rhode Island to attend college.

Christiane Amanpour's Early Career Years :

While a student, Amanpour interned at the Rhode Island NBC affiliate WJAR. After

graduation, she endured numerous network

rejections because she lacked "the right look."

She eventually landed an assistant's job on CNN's

international desk in Atlanta. "I arrived at CNN with a suitcase,

with my bicycle and with about 100 dollars." She

was transferred to Eastern Europe in 1986,

during the fall of Communism. It was

there that her reporting caught the attention of

CNN brass.

Christiane Amanpour as CNN Foreign Correspondent:

Amanpour was elevated to CNN

foreign correspondent in 1989, where she

reported on democratic revolutions in Eastern

Europe. She first attained widespread

acclaim for her riveting coverage of the

Persian Gulf War in 1990, followed by

award-winning reporting of the

conflicts in Bosnia and Rwanda.

Reporting from on board the USS JFK during the first gulf war,

1990/1991

Reporting from

Bosnia, 1998

Conducting an interview in an Afghan hospital, November 2001

Reporting from

the Iraq war, 2003

Covering the funeral of John Paul II, May 2005

Filming In The Footsteps of Bin Laden, October

2006

Reporting from

Northern Israel during conflict

between Israel and Hezbollah

, July 2006

On Larry King Live, July 2007

Overlooking the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, while filming for the programme God's Warriors, April 2007

Interviewing the Dalai Lama, Dharamsala, March 2008

In Afghanistan for Generation Islam, March 2009At memorial site south of

Phnom Penh, Cambodia, January 2008

Visiting genocide site in Rwanda, April 2007

Awards and Accolades, Partial List:

2000 Edward R. Murrow Award for Distinguished

Achievement in Broadcast Journalism

2002 Harvard's Goldsmith Career Award for Journalism

Two Emmy news/documentary awards

Two George Foster Peabody Awards for Broadcasting

Two George Polk Awards for Journalism

1994 Woman of the Year, New York Chapter of Women in

CableCourage in Journalism Award, International Women's Media

FoundationMajor role in two duPont

awards and a Golden Cable Ace award given to CNN

Amanpour in Peshawar, Pakistan

Jonathan Klein, president of CNN/U.S., Christiane Amanpour and Mark Nelson, vice president and senior executive

producer for CNN Productions at the Television Critics Association (TCA)

CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour inspires Irshad, other young journalists and students from Miss Porter's School for Girls at the Moral Courage Conversations in New York City -

February 2009.

In one of the issues of Harper’s

Bazaar they feature one of

the most amazing

women on TV, Christiane

Amanpour

Christiane Amanpour, left, with her husband, James

Rubin, and son, Darius, attend the annual Salute to Women In Sports

Awards dinner Tuesday, Oct. 14,

2008, in New York.

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