Ramy Inocencio Biography
Ramy Inocencio is a skilled journalist currently working as a CBS News foreign correspondent based in London, covering Europe and the Middle East. He joined the Network in 2019 as CBS News’ Asia correspondent, based in Beijing and reporting across the Asia-Pacific, bringing two decades of experience working and traveling between Asia and the United States.
Ramy Inocencio Career
Inocencio delivered comprehensive reporting from Asia and was the first U.S. network correspondent to report from Wuhan just as the COVID-19 global pandemic broke out in January 2020 at CBS News. Furthermore, he followed COVID’s earliest transmissions from mainland China to Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan and was stranded for half a year in Japan because of international border closures. Inocencio eventually reported on the suspension of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics before being allowed to return to China in the fall.
He provided rolling coverage of the entirety of the 2019 pro-democracy protests from the frontlines in Hong Kong. In addition, Inocencio reported from the historic summer storming of Hong Kong’s legislature by anti-Beijing protestors on the 22nd anniversary of the territory’s return to China from British colonial rule, the unprecedented landslide win of pro-democracy candidates in local elections that December and Beijing’s controversial National Security Law in the summer of 2021 that muzzled criticism of the government and China’s Communist Party for good. Having covered Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution protests in 2014, Inocencio further gave personal and cultural context to the 2019 protests and knew key leaders of the social movements, many of whom have now been imprisoned including pro-democracy billionaire media tycoon Jimmy Lai and student activist leader Joshua Wong.
Additionally, he also reported from Seoul, South Korea on North Korea’s continual launching of ballistic missiles and failed attempts at denuclearization and from White Island, New Zealand and Taal in the Philippines on two volcanic disasters.
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Inocencio further reported from China’s remote southwest Yunnan province in the search for COVID’s origins in bats with he and his team chased by angry villagers. Moreover, Inocencio was also barred from returning to mainland China by Beijing, stuck in Hong Kong for much of 2021, because of the worst U.S.-China political tensions since normalization of diplomatic ties in 1979.
Prior to joining CBS News, he worked a New York-based anchor and correspondent for “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia.” Inocencio covered live the first face-to-face summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping from Mar-a-Lago at Bloomberg Television. In addition, he reported breaking news from Paris on the 2016 Bastille Day terror attack, and traveled across the United States in 2015 for “Wiring the World,” his technology innovation feature series. Inocencio also anchored for Bloomberg Radio and launched two daily podcasts on U.S.-Asia Pacific economic and financial ties.
Before Bloomberg, he was the Wall Street Journal’s deputy Asia-Pacific editor in Hong Kong for video streaming operations and host of the WSJ’s weekly technology show “Digits.” Furthermore, he also shot, edited and filed one-man band stories on the ground from across Asia, including the devastation in the Philippines following Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Umbrella Revolution in 2014 and Pope Francis’ first visit to the Philippines in 2015. Earlier, Inocencio was CNN International’s Asia business correspondent based in Hong Kong and CNN’s NASDAQ reporter in New York City. In addition, he has interviewed notable executives and politicians including J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler, Cathay Pacific CEO John Slosar, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, U.S. Federal Reserve President James Bullard of St. Louis and Hong Kong Chief Secretary Anson Chan.
Ramy Inocencio Early Life
He first worked in China as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in 2000 teaching environmental science to college students in rural Sichuan province. Inocencio later worked at the World Wildlife Fund in Beijing, as a TV host for CCTV International and as a national drive-time DJ for China Radio International which was his first break into the broadcast world.
Moreover, he is a champion of newsroom diversity, internationalism and volunteerism and has served as national senior vice president for the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and as global co-lead of Bloomberg’s Pan-Asian Community (BPAC). Additionally, Inocencio is a past president of the New York alumni chapter of the East-West Center (EWC), a Hawaii-based think tank that promotes stronger relations and cultural understanding between the U.S., Asia and the Pacific. He is both a 2009 fellowship recipient of the EWC’s Asia-Pacific Leadership Program and a 2019 fellowship recipient of the EWC’s Asia-Pacific Journalism Fellows program to Taiwan. In 2016, he was named one of the “50 Best Asian Americans in Business” by the New York-based Asian American Business Development Center.
Inocencio graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia as the first-born American son of immigrant parents, his father, Inocencio Sr. hails from the Philippines and is a U.S Navy retiree and his mother, Ivy Kiong Inocencio is from Singapore and is a former flight attendant. He also speaks Mandarin Chinese. Inocencio tied the knot with his husband, Hsin–IHuang on 9 August 2019 in Taipei City Hall, Taiwan. He is a Taiwanese classical pianist and Queens College professor in New York . They have a South Korean rescue dog named Cooper and Chinese rescue dog Clover.
Ramy Inocencio Age
Inocencio was born in Alexandria, Virginia on 22 July, 1977 and is now 47 years old as of 2024.
Ramy Inocencio Height
He stands at an average height of 5 feet 7 inches tall.
Ramy Inocencio Education
Inocencio graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
Ramy Inocencio Family
He was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. Inocencio is the first-born American son of immigrant parents, his father, Inocencio Sr. hails from the Philippines and is a U.S Navy retiree and his mother, Ivy Kiong Inocencio is from Singapore and is a former flight attendant. He also speaks Mandarin Chinese and has a sibling sister, Iliana Inocencio.
Ramy Inocencio Husband
Inocencio tied the knot with his husband, Hsin–I Huang on 9 August 2019 in Taipei City Hall, Taiwan. He is a Taiwanese classical pianist and Queens College professor in New York . They have a South Korean rescue dog named Cooper and Chinese rescue dog Clover.
Ramy Inocencio Children
He is a father to twin boys, Ethan and Ian born in December 2021.
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