Richard Lui is a Peabody- and Murrow-honored journalist with over 30 years of experience across media, technology, and business. He has spent two decades at NBCU News Group and CNN Worldwide, anchoring breaking national and international coverage.
Earlier in his career, he anchored at Asia Pacific network CNA and worked at Citibank Asia Pacific, where he launched a patented, bank-centric fintech exchange with successful exit. He has since launched five tech brands.
For 10 years, he has traveled every other week between New York and California to care for his father and mother, who have faced Alzheimer’s and/or dementia. That experience has led him to direct two Oscar-qualifying films on caregiving, Sky Blossom and UNCONDITIONAL. He has begun production on To the Moon, on U.S. Congress members who are currently caregivers, and Dr. Hope, on the inventor of AIDS/HIV treatment credited with saving more than 32 million lives.
A thought leader in the care economy, he serves as Principal, Care & Data Science at CAREGenome (at the University of Michigan) and Chief Impact Officer of Startup Health’s Caregiving Moonshot. He also serves as an AARP Caregiving Ambassador, an Alzheimer’s Association Celebrity Ambassador, and a UN Global CARE Alliance Champion.
He is a recipient of the National Education Association’s Human and Civil Rights Award, and his family history includes his grandfather entering the United States as a “paper son,” with the family’s original last name being Wong.