With women like Christiane Amanpour, BeckyAnderson, Nima Elbagir, Hala Gorani, Kristie Lu Stout and Rosemary Church on CNN, the network has easily become the premier destination for the most influential women in media. Someone whose name will soon be mentioned alongside those mentioned above is Zain Asher, a rising star on the network who serves as a business and personal finance correspondent.

Zain Asher Biography

On August 27, 1983, Zain Ejiofor Asher was born to a Nigerian doctor living in England, named Arinze, and his wife, Obiajulu, who worked as a pharmacist in Forest Gate, London, England. She is the younger sister of actor Chiwetel Ejiofor.

On a family trip to Nigeria in 1988, when Asher was 5 years old, his brother and father were traveling to Lagos when they had an accident which resulted in the death of his father, while his brother was left with injuries on the forehead still visible today.

Despite the tragic incident, Asher was still able to move on with his life receiving the best education available. She attended Keble College, University of Oxford, where she earned a degree in Spanish and French, before moving to New York to enroll at Columbia University, where she studied journalism.

Prior to joining CNN, Zain Asher worked with Forbes.com, covering business trends and consumer stories. After that, she spent a few years at News 12 where she covered the local economy, as well as political and cultural issues in Connecticut, Brooklyn and the Bronx. In addition to that, she worked as a reporter for The Guadalajara Reporter when she was based in Mexico. There, she also worked as a freelance associate producer for a local radio station, Universidad de Guadalajara.

After working with numerous other outlets, including Money, for which she has written articles on personal finance, Asher joined CNN in 2013 and has become a regular face on currency and economics issues. She is fluent in Spanish, French and Igbo. She has worked in different parts of the world including Nigeria, France and Mexico.

Who is her husband?

In 2017, Zain Asher got married to her husband, Steve Peoples in New York. While it’s unclear how long they knew and dated before getting married, it is known that they got engaged sometime in April 2016.

Just like Asher, Peoples is also a media personality who works with AP as a political reporter. Not much more is known about the American of white ethnicity other than the fact that he has a twin sister who was born 5 minutes before him.

In 2018, the couple welcomed their unnamed first child.

Brother – Chiwetel Ejiofor

As stated earlier, Zain Ejiofor Asher is the younger sister of actor Chiwetel Ejiofor who was born 6 years before her on July 10, 1977 in Forest Gate, London. Ejiofor is an acclaimed stage, film and television actor who has won numerous awards including the British Academy Film Awards for his role in 12 Years A Slave which also earned him an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination.

Zain and his brother are very close. When he was nominated for an Oscar in 2014, she broke down in tears as she spoke about him and all the hard work he’s been doing since he was 13. She also revealed that it was a day when the whole family had been waiting. Matthew McConaughey, who also won the Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards that year.

Zain Asher and Chiwetel Ejiofor are undoubtedly the most popular in their family, however, they also have a sister called Kandibe Ejiofor who is a doctor. Zain also revealed that she has other brothers, although nothing is said about them.

Net value

Zain Asher has worked for major media outlets around the world, including Forbes, the Guardian, and now CNN. Thanks to this, she has become a well-known face in most countries of the world. More than that, it has also helped her amass an estimated net worth of $2 million. The CNN Money reporter was able to achieve this by reporting an unconfirmed annual salary of over $60,000 from the network.

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