Riz Khan hosts "Q&A with Riz Khan" and "Q&A Asia with Riz Khan" on CNN International, as well as anchoring news shows and news events for the network. The Q&A shows are the network's daily interactive programs, featuring newsmaker and celebrity interviews, as well as live viewer interaction via telephone, fax, e-mail and video-mail. Since Q&A launched in July 1996, Khan's guests have included UN Secretary Gen. Kofi Annan; U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Queen Noor of Jordan and paranormalist Uri Geller. His has interviewed authors such as Tom Clancy, Ken Follett and Helen Fielding; actors such as Kenneth Branagh, Danny Glover and Sigourney Weaver; musicians such as Sheryl Crow, Yanni and Jonathan Bell; and athletes such as Michael Johnson and Evander Holyfield; as well as a host of presidents, prime ministers and ambassadors from around the world. On Q&A, Khan has interviewed more world leaders than any other international news interview show.

His notable special coverage has included CNN's world exclusive, historic and award-winning coverage of the Muslim pilgrimage, The Hajj, from Mecca in 1998. It was the first time any international news network had been allowed in to provide extensive, in-depth and live transmissions from this annual event. Khan has covered the event for CNN each year since.

In May 1996, Khan anchored CNNI's extensive coverage of the Indian elections live from New Delhi and returned for the elections there in 1999. He hosted Q&A from the Jerusalem, Amman, Beirut and Damascus during the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David in July 2000.

Before joining CNNI in May 1993, he was a presenter and reporter with the BBC, anchoring World Service Newscasts since October 1991. Earlier, Khan was a presenter and reporter for Central TV in Birmingham, England, and was a presenter and reporter for BBC Radio 4 and Radio 5. Khan also has reported for national and regional BBC television and radio.

Khan's first television job was in Oxford, England, in April 1989 for the BBC's regional television program Newsroom South East. This post involved a heavy schedule of field reporting, producing and directing, as well as occasional anchor work. In 1987 he was one of 12 people selected for the BBC's News Trainee Program, where he trained on a range of BBC programs and gained experience writing, editing, producing, directing, reporting and anchoring.

Born in the British colony of Aden in the former South Yemen, Khan has lived in Britain since 1967 and is a British citizen. In addition to English, he speaks Urdu, Hindi and has a working knowledge of Punjabi, and other South Asian languages, along with French and Swedish.

Khan earned a bachelor of science degree with honors in physiology at the University College Cardiff, University of Wales. He also holds a postgraduate diploma in radio journalism from Highbury College, Portsmouth, Hampshire.