Christiane Amanpour
Will History Teach Us Nothing?

Christiane Amanpour, senior international correspondent for Cable News Network, has worked in most of the major war zones of the 1990's. Her most recent assignments have sent her to Bosnia, Haiti, Algeria and Rwanda, where she covered civil unrest and political crises. She has reported extensively on the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

After covering the changes in central Europe in 1989 and 1990, she covered the Gulf war from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 to the Kurdish refugee crisis on the Iran-Iraq border that persisted after the cease-fire. She also covered the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 and subsequent war in Tbilisi. In December 1992, Amanpour briefly left the former Yugoslavia to report live from the shores of Mogadishu, Somalia, as American troops landed.

Amanpour began her CNN career in 1983 as an assistant to the network's international assignment desk in Atlanta. She has worked in CNN's New York and Frankfurt bureaus and is now based in Paris.

Amanpour's reports from the former Yugoslavia have received a News and Documentary Emmy, the George Foster Peabody Award, the George Polk Award, the Courage in Journalism Award, the Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival Gold Award and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She was named "1994 Woman of the Year" by the New York Chapter of Women in Cable and Telecommunications. Amanpour's Gulf war reporting also received the Breakthrough Award from Women, Men and Media.

Recently, Amanpour was named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists. This honor recognizes significant contributions to journalism.

Before joining CNN, Amanpour worked at WJAR-TV, Providence, as an electronic graphics designer. From 1981 to 1982, she worked as a reporter, anchor and producer for WBRU Radio, also in Providence.

Amanpour was born in London. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism, summa cum laude, from the University of Rhode Island.