Zain Asher Biography – Zain Asher Wiki
Zain Asher originally Zain Ejiofor Asher is a British Nigerian news anchor at CNN International who is based in New York City. Currently, she is an anchor of the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom, and she can be noticed routinely filling in on the network’s premier business programs, The Express, Quest Means Business, and First Move with Julia Chatterley. She is also a host of Marketplace Africa, which is CNN’s weekly business show that is about the continent and its place within global markets, and frequently carries interviews on CEOs and world leaders for the program. She has been an anchor on CNN’s special coverage around #MyFreedomDay, which is a global call to action that raised awareness of modern-day slavery all over the world, as well as the deaths of Fidel Castro, singer George Michael and the legend of boxing Muhammad Ali.
Apart from being an anchor for major breaking news stories for CNN, she has been a reporter from the field on high-profile stories such as the 2014 story of the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria, and the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon in 2013. Previously, she worked as a business correspondent for CNN reporting on the stock market from the New York Stock Exchange, U.S. Federal Reserve monetary policy, and high-profile IPOs.She joined CNN in 2013 after exiting Money magazine where she covered areas like careers and investing as a full-time reporter. Before joining MONEY, she did general assignment reports for News 12 Brooklyn in the greater New York area reporting from Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Connecticut. She was born and raised in London and Asher graduated from Keble College at Oxford University in 2005 with a degree in Spanish and French. The following year, she was graduated from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, in New York City. She is fluent in speaking French, Spanish, and Ibo. An anchor on CNN Newsroom on CNN International and previously, she co-anchored CNN Newsroom on CNN America. She has also worked as a business correspondent in New York City. Adding to her financial reporting for CNN, she also had a monthly column in Money Magazine.
Zain Asher Age
She was born on August 27, 1983, in Balham, London, United Kingdom. She is a descendant of the Igbo people of Nigeria and her family’s origin was in Ezeagu LGA, Enugu State, Nigeria.
Zain Asher Husband
She is married to her husband Steve Peoples. Zain Asher and her husband both work in the media industry. Her husband is a political reporter working for The Associated Press. Zain and her husband, Steve, got engaged in April 2016, and they later exchanged their vows at the down-low ceremony on September 30, 2017.
Zain Asher Children
Her union with her husband brought them a son. She shared the news of her pregnancy on August 16, 2018. Her son was born in the same year.
Zain Asher Parents
She is the daughter of Arinze Ejiofor – her father- who was a doctor and died in 1998 following a car accident in Nigeria and her mother Obiajulu Ejiofor is a pharmacist.
Zain Asher Brother
She was born in a family of three. She is the youngest sister of English actor and filmmaker Chiwetel Ejiofor. She also has a sister who is slightly older than her is known as Kandibe Ejiofor who is practicing medicine.
Zain Asher Net Worth
Zain Asher’s net worth is unknown. However, details of her net worth will be updated for the public domain as soon as they are available.
Zain Asher Height
Her listed height is 5 feet 3 inches tall.
Zain Asher Instagram
She is on Instagram as zainashercnn.
