Women I Admire/Christiane Amanpour

Christiane Amanpour, is the host of CNN International's interview program Amanpour as well as the network's Chief International Correspondent. She also serves as the Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News. Currently, she is a Board Member of the IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation).

Upon becoming an international correspondent for CNN in 1990, her first major assignment was covering the Gulf War. She has since reported on and from the world’s major hotspots including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Somalia, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Rwanda, the Balkans and the United States during Hurricane Katrina.

After 9/11, she was the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. She has interviewed other world leaders, including Iranian presidents Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as the presidents of Afghanistan, Sudan and Syria.

Amanpour has an inaugural Television Academy Award, nine News and Documentary Emmys, four George Foster Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards, the Courage in Journalism Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award and nine honorary degrees.

Raised in Tehran, Amanpour was born in London, England.Amanpour is married to James Rubin,an informal adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.