Kai Ryssdal
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Kai Ryssdal is the host of Marketplace, a business program that airs weekdays on U.S. public radio stations affiliated with American Public Media. He took over in August 2005, replacing David Brown. Before hosting Marketplace, he was host of the Marketplace Morning Report, a 10-minute business roundup.
Before joining Marketplace, Ryssdal was a reporter and substitute host for The California Report, a news and information program distributed to public radio stations throughout California by KQED-FM in San Francisco.
The Radio and Television News Directors Association and the national Public Radio News Directors Association have honored him with first place awards for his radio work.
Ryssdal graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Followed by spending eight years in the United States Navy, first flying from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, and then as a Pentagon staff officer. Before moving to public radio, Kai was a member of the United States Foreign Service and served in Ottawa, Canada, and Beijing, China.
Ryssdal, as evidenced by his work on Marketplace when the show visited China for a week of special broadcasts in 2006, speaks a little Chinese. Ryssdal is married and has three children.
