Richard Lui

Richard Lui is a veteran journalist and news anchor currently at MSNBC and formerly CNN Worldwide. In 2007 Lui became the first Asian American male to anchor a daily, national news broadcast in the U.S. Most recently, Lui reported on the ground on the Paris and San Bernardino Terror Attacks and in Ferguson and Baltimore during heightened unrest.

For 15 years Lui’s reporting has focused on politics, covering every U.S. national election since 2004. He has interviewed hundreds of politicians, from Detroit Mayor to U.S. President. He has been a contributing columnist for USA Today, Politico, Seattle Times, Detroit Free Press, Huffington Post, and others.

Lui is Caregiving Champion for the Alzheimer’s Association and AARP, and a Hidden Heroes Ambassador. He currently travels between the East and West Coasts to care for his father who has Alzheimer’s.

Lui is also a technologist with a wide-reaching business career, launching six technology brands over three technology cycles, most recently a Silicon Valley artificial intelligence company in 2016. While at Citibank Singapore, he co-founded and patented a Visa-like payments backbone and was a management consultant at Mercer for an IBM joint venture. Lui sits on four boards of directors / advisers in spaces ranging from international relations to artificial intelligence, as well as for Annie Cannons, a not-for-profit that teaches coding skills to survivors of human trafficking and violence against women. Lui is also a 2016 Governance Fellow for the National Association of Corporate Directors.

In addition to being a team Emmy and team Peabody recipient, he is ranked globally in the top 1% of social media users by Twitter Counter and was named one of 21 dynamic careers to watch alongside Warren Buffet and Sheryl Sandberg by Business Insider.