Max Foster Biography
Max Foster, a CNN anchor-correspondent located in London, is a CNN anchor-correspondent. He is the anchor of CNN International’s ‘CNN Newsroom with Max Foster,’ which airs Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. ET (1p London). He also contributes to CNN US and cnn.com with articles from Europe.
Max Foster Age
Foster is 49 years old as of 2021. He was born Max Roland Redington Foster on 30 October 1972 in the United States of America.
Max Foster Height
Foster stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 m).
Max Foster Family
Foster has not shared any information regarding his loving parents as of now, 2022. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more intel from our trusted sources of information as soon as possible.
Max Foster Education
Foster spent the most of his childhood in Wiltshire, England, where he attended Dauntsey’s School in Devizes and The Ridgeway School and Sixth Form College. Foster earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from Highbury College in Portsmouth after studying Business Administration at Cardiff University.
Hannah and Max Foster – Wife
Foster, his wife Hannah, and their three young children live in Hampshire near Newbury, Berkshire. His ancestors are half-Swedish.
Max Foster BBC
Foster began his career at the age of sixteen, hosting his own weekly entertainment show on Hospital Radio Swindon. He freelanced as a reporter for BBC Radio Wales’ ‘Rave’ and BBC Radio Five, hosted by Rob Brydon, while at Cardiff University. He performed a work internship at BBC Wiltshire Sound in Swindon while graduate journalism school and lasted for two years. Foster joined the BBC World Service as a business presenter-reporter in 1997, where he worked on the flagship Newshour program. Foster rose to prominence as a result of his coverage of the Asian Financial Crisis, and at the age of 24, he began hosting World Business Report. Foster joined BBC TV Business Programmes on an attachment in 2000 and stayed.
Before joining BBC Breakfast as a full-time reporter, he worked for Business Breakfast, BBC World, and Working Lunch. He had an exclusive on internet banking security, which prompted Abbey National’s online service, Cahoot, to be temporarily shut down. Along with Moira Stuart, he also presented the business news and Breakfast Briefing.
Max Foster Net Worth
Foster has an estimated net worth of between $1-5 Million.
Max Foster CNN Career
Foster joined CNN International as a Business Anchor and Correspondent in London in 2005. He was named permanent co-anchor of CNN Today with Monita Rajpal after hosting special coverage of Pope John Paul II’s failing health. He led special coverage of key events such as the commencement of the 2006 Lebanon War and the 2007 London car attacks. During the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Foster anchored a live six-hour simulcast on CNN and CNN International, breaking the news that Hurricane Katrina had caused a breach in the levees around New Orleans. Foster covered Banksy and Adam Neate during the early stages of the street art movement. His early honest conversation with bestselling novelist Stephenie Meyer has been frequently referenced in books and periodicals.
Foster moved to European primetime in April 2009, where he interviewed all living British Prime Ministers, as well as Prime Ministers from Iraq, Sweden, and Haiti; Presidents of the European Commission, Georgia, and the Maldives; business leaders such as Bill Gates, Alan Mulally, Jack Dorsey, Bob Dudley, and Steve Jobs; and celebrities such as Dolly Parton, Diddy, Keith Richards, Michael Cain, Carrie Underwood, Amitabh Bachchan, and George Lucas. For CNN, he created a monthly show called Edit Room, which premiered in June 2010 and ran for a year. He talked about news coverage with celebrities like Emma Thompson, P. J. O’Rourke, and photojournalist Tim Hetherington just before he was killed in Libya.
In 2013, he conducted an interview with Prince William immediately after his baby, Prince George of Cambridge, was born, which made international news. In 2015, he interviewed The Prince of Wales to commemorate ten years of marriage to The Duchess of Cornwall, and in 2017, he secured The Duchess’s first ever television interview to commemorate her 70th birthday. In 2012, he had an interview with Queen Margrethe II to commemorate her 40th jubilee. The Daily Telegraph has picked up on other royal exclusives. Foster has been quoted in publications such as The Washington Post, The Australian, and The Jakarta Post, and has appeared on ABC Radio National, BBC One, Entertainment Tonight, Seven Network, and BBC Radio Five Live as a royal commentator.
Foster was elevated to Anchor/London Correspondent in May 2014, keeping the royal portfolio but also overseeing all UK issues. In August 2014, he received knowledge concerning Russian troop movements during the Ukraine crisis from a British security source. Bobby Jindal gave a contentious interview in January 2015 concerning the existence of “so-called no-go zones” in London, which was widely covered by US media. He also chastised Republican Donald Trump on his foreign policies during the US presidential campaign.
Foster covers important breaking news and events from the field, including the Scottish independence referendum, the 2015 and 2017 general elections in the United Kingdom, the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership vote, and the Grenfell Tower fire.
Other anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.