Anjali Rao co-anchors CNN’s prime-time evening news and business show, 'World News Asia', live from CNN’s regional production center in Hong Kong. She also hosts 'Talk Asia', the half-hour regional chat show, that features revealing, in-depth interviews and topical discussion with leading business, political and entertainment figures.
Rao has been an anchor/correspondent for CNN since joining the network in January 2006. In her career to date, Rao has covered a broad portfolio of major news stories including the attacks of 9/11, the Asian tsunami, the aftermath of the Bali bombings, the war in Iraq and the South Asian earthquake. 
Prior to joining CNN, Rao worked for a decade at broadcasters in Australia, Asia and Europe. She started her career as a producer and reporter at Hong Kong’s Wharf Cable Television (now i-cable) and worked on Channel 7’s ‘Today Tonight’ program based in Melbourne, Australia before joining Hong Kong’s Star News Asia.
Whilst at Star TV she won the top prize at the 2004 Amnesty International Human Rights Press Awards for her story ‘Toxic Trail’, a ‘Focus Asia’ piece on the effects of widespread use of pesticide in southern India. In the summer of 2004 Rao moved to the UK and took up a position as a presenter for the British terrestrial broadcaster Five’s ‘Five News’ program and the Sky News channel.
Born in Hong Kong, Rao was educated mainly in the UK. She received a bachelor’s degree with honors in Sociology and Media Studies from London’s City University.
