Richard Lui

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Richard Lui is the news anchor for the 10am ET edition of Morning Express on CNN Headline News. He also leads the network's morning political coverage, reporting daily from 6 to 10am ET on the Robin Meade show. In addition, Lui field reports for CNN's Southern Region.^[1]

Since joining CNN, Lui has desk anchored live, rolling coverage of breaking stories such as the Virginia Tech Massacre, 2006 Hezbollah-Israel War, Mumbai train terrorist bombings, Mumbai Hotels Siege, and Enron verdicts.^[2] Lui is the first Chinese - and only Asian-American male anchoring a daily national newscast.^[3][4]

Before moving to network news in 2003, Lui worked for 15 years in international business across five industries. Most recently he and his cofounders started the first bank-centric payment system in a 2003 Citibank carve-out.^[5]

Outside of his journalism and business careers, Lui has been active in community service for 25 years. He is a pro bono strategy consultant and board member for non-profits in homeless and affordable housing.^[3] Lui also keynote speaks on topics such as career innovation and overcoming adversity.^[6][7] Lui has worked, lived, and studied in Europe, Asia, and the U.S, where he currently resides.^[1]

[edit] Journalism career

In addition to anchoring, Lui’s field reporting has focused on the implications of terrorist activity with reports exploring counter-IED strategy and equipment, and research in container scanning technology at the world's busiest port. This topic has also taken him Bali to report on the latent economic effects of the Jemaah Islamiya terrorist bombings. ^[8]

Lui reporting live on CNN: UGA professor turns into spree killer. May, 2009.

His reporting includes undercover work exploring the plight of underage sex slaves held in Indonesian brothels, and researching the efficacy of hanging to mitigate low-volume drug trafficking. Exploring his own background, Lui has also reported on the descendants of Paper Sons—Chinese illegal immigrants at the turn of the 20th century. ^[8]

Since 2005, Lui has anchored and reported on CNN English-language networks including CNN International, CNN US, and HLN. He was a founding anchor of CNN.com Live, the first online news network with full, live programming.^[1][9]

Before joining CNN, Lui reported from Asia during two years of political change and tumult. He anchored live rolling coverage of the South Asian tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands, and the region’s debilitating 2003 SARS and bird flu outbreaks.^[1]

In 2004, he reported live on the shooting of Taiwan’s president during the national election. He also reported on Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim nation, as it moved from Sukarno family rule bridging 50 years. Lui was based in Singapore at Channel NewsAsia, an English-only news network reaching over 20 countries and territories.^[10]

Previous Reports

• International: sexslaves, hanging and drug trafficking, "paper son" illegal immigrants
• Terrorism: robots disarm IEDs, container scanning, Bali bombs’ economic effects, bomb-resistant troop carriers
• Political: Man on the street "the economy", the President’s cabinet, Obama Chief of Staff
• Environmental/social responsibility: donating shoes, hybrid technology, reducing truck pollution
• Show and Tell: bouncing hard drives, printing on tires, TV in your eyeglasses

[edit] Business career

Though Lui currently works in journalism, he started in 1985 in business, working in manufacturing, consulting, food and beverage, environmental, and technology industries. He has held chief roles from operations to marketing.^[6]

Until 2008, Lui served as Director at Blink Mobile (a Citibank Corporate Bank venture)^[5] where he and his co-founders patented and launched the world’s first bank-centric payment routing network. This infrastructure enabled consumers to pay for goods and services using wireless devices to access their bank, brokerage, and other funds.^[5]

Prior to Blink, Lui evaluated and proposed new business concepts at Citibank SE Asia^[5] and Oliver Wyman Consulting New York^[11] (formerly Mercer Management Consulting). This case work involved the onset of e-brokerage models moving to mobile phone stock trading in South Korea and Hong Kong. He also worked on the globalization software market (programs that help enterprise systems work in multi-language and multi-country applications). His business development work at these firms resulted in ventures receiving funding ranging to over 20 million US dollars.^[12]

Lui’s business career first took form in the 1980s. During four years at upstart Mrs. Fields Cookies^[1] he lead the company’s largest sales unit and management training center at the age of 18. He then moved to CEE/QED^[13], developing its international distributor network and global ad campaign. That was followed by several years at another startup—technology company Lazarus Data Recovery where he was vice president marketing.^[14]

[edit] Community Service

Outside of work, Lui has worked in the community since high school when he volunteered as youth counselor for the YMCA, an organization he stayed with over the course of 15 years. After college, he taught addicted mothers computer skills at the American Indian Family Healing Center, and did marketing for the Red Cross^[15]

He currently leads a team of pro bono strategy consultants for the CCT organization. The group provides strategy consulting services to non-profits. At CCT, his cases focus on low-income neighborhood revitalization through community technology centers, and homeless transitional housing models.^[16]

Keynote speech to Delta Air Lines executives on subject of the “universal worker” and globalization. Lui, May, 2009.

In addition, Lui applies his strategy training on the board of Crossroads^[15], a homeless services non-profit that has served the community for 35 years, and the advisory board for PRI, a 20-year old, non-profit developer of affordable housing.^[17]

Speaking

Lui has spoken on topics such as the Universal Worker, Personal Innovation^[18] and others for events at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Google^[19], Cisco, Delta Air Lines, APACC, others.^[7][20]

Lui is an automobile enthusiast. In his talks, he has said he started "wrenching" when he was 10 ^[7], and is an aerodynamics, airplane industry hobbyist ^[20]. He studied in Spain, and speaks Spanish conversationally ^[21]

[edit] External links

• CNN Biography of Richard Lui
• Morning Express blog
• AAJA student journalism program public service announcement
• Community Consulting Teams
• QED Environmental Systems
• Crossroads Homeless Services
• PRI Affordable Housing
• Work samples from agent

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