Riz Khan

Rizwan Ahmad Khan (born 1 April 1962), known as Riz Khan, is a British broadcaster, journalist and author, born in Aden to a Pakistani Punjabi father and a Gujarati mother. A founding presenter of BBC World Service Television News, he hosted Q&A with Riz Khan on CNN International from 1996 and his own show on Al Jazeera English from 2006 to 2011, and wrote a biography of Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal (2005). ¹

Khan was born on 1 April 1962 in the British colony of Aden, now part of Yemen; the Arabic article and Wikidata give April 1962 at month precision. ^{1 2 3} His father was born in Amritsar and migrated to Lahore at the partition of India, and his mother was born in Mukalla, in Yemen, to a family from Kathiawar in Gujarat. ¹ He moved with his family to London at the age of four and was educated at schools in Hounslow and at the University of Wales. ¹

Khan joined the BBC News trainee scheme in 1987, became a reporter and producer, and in 1991 was one of the founding presenters of BBC World Service Television News, hosting its launch bulletin. ¹ He moved to CNN International in 1993, where his interviews programme Q&A with Riz Khan ran from 1996 and his guests included Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela; in 1999 he secured the first interview with General Pervez Musharraf after the Pakistan coup. ¹ In 2003 he hosted International Questions, Pakistan's first English-language talk show, on ARY News, and from 2006 to April 2011 he presented his own show on Al Jazeera English. ^{1 2} His book Al-Waleed: Businessman, Billionaire, Prince was published in 2005. ¹

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