Anjali Rao

Prior to joining CNN, Anjali worked as a producer and reporter at Hong Kong's Wharf Cable Television and at Channel 7 in Melbourne, Australia. She went on to the principal news anchor role at Star TV where she won the top prize at the 2004 Amnesty International Human Rights Press Awards. In 2009, she was named Best Current Affairs Presenter at the Asian Television Awards while anchoring at CNN. Anjali has also been the recipient of a number of other prestigious awards, including a Peabody Award.

Anjali Rao is best known in the UK as a presenter for Sky News and Channel 5 news.

She was an anchor for CNN International, from January 2006 until her resignation in August 2012. She presented CNN's breakfast show live to the world from the television network's Asia news headquarters in Hong Kong. Anjali also fronted CNN's flagship celebrity chat show TalkAsia, interviewing household names such as U.S President Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama, Kobe Bryant, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Karl Lagerfeld, Rihanna, Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Roger Federer among many others.

As of Feb 19, 2020, Anjali has been cast as the newest member of The Real Housewives of Melbourne.

Born in Hong Kong, Anjali Rao was educated mainly in the UK at Cobham Hall, Kent, and King's Canterbury, Kent, followed by London's City University, where she earned a bachelor's degree with Honours in Sociology and Media Studies.[2] Her father was an Indian doctor, Dr Prithvi Raj Rao, from Bangalore though he was born in Burma. He died suddenly at the age of 55, when Anjali was almost 5 years old. Her mother, Cynthia, is from Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, and now lives in the UK.[3]

Anjali lives in Melbourne, and has one son from her marriage to Brett Gullan. [4]

• Interview with Anjali Rao