Richard is a media content and digital-social specialist with 30 years of experience in television, technology, and business.

Currently, he is a journalist and news anchor for MSNBC and NBC News, and before that, news anchor at CNN Worldwide, where he became the first Asian American male to anchor a daily national news broadcast in the U.S.  Most recently, Lui reported on the ground on the Paris and San Bernadino Terror Attacks and in Ferguson and Baltimore during heightened racial unrest.

Lui is also a technologist with a wide-reaching business career going back to the 1990s.  He launched five technology brands over three technology cycles, most recently an artificial intelligence company in Silicon Valley in 2016.  While at Citibank Singapore, he co-founded and patented a Visa-like payments backbone and was a management consultant at Mercer for an IBM joint venture.

Lui sits on four boards of directors / advisers in spaces ranging from international relations to artificial intelligence.  He is a 2016 Governance Fellow for the National Association of Corporate Directors. Lui is a NAAAP 100 recipient.

Remaining active in academia and community, Lui is a Policy Fellow at the University of California, Riverside, UN Spokesperson, U.S. State Department Traveling Speaker, and ambassador for APIASF and several NGOs focusing on gender equality and human trafficking.

Lui has received civil rights awards from national organizations, including the National Education Association, Advancing Justice, AAJA, WWAAC, and OCA.

Lui graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA Honors Rhetoric, and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan with an MBA.

A first generation Chinese and Polynesian American, Lui has a twist in his background.  Because his grandfather, an unauthorized immigrant, filed “Paper Son” documents, Lui’s real last name is Wong.