Becky Anderson

Becky Anderson is one of CNN's highest profile anchors and correspondents, based in London. A distinctive and versatile TV journalist, she is the anchor of CNN's flagship nightly news and business programme ‘Business International’. In addition, Anderson is regularly deployed to serve as lead anchor on location for breaking news stories.

Since joining CNN in 1999, she has covered a variety of momentous stories from around the world. In 2005, Anderson anchored from the heart of the earthquake zone, following the devastating quake that hit South Asia. She also played a lead role in the network’s extensive coverage of both the 7/7 terror attacks in London and the riots in Paris. In March 2003 Anderson travelled to Kuwait as part of the CNN’s international team in the Gulf where she played a critical role in the network’s continuous coverage of the war in Iraq from the company’s broadcast set-up in Kuwait City.

Anderson’s experience is wide-ranging, and includes presenting CNN’s London-based special coverage of the 2004 US presidential elections and the rolling coverage of elections in the UK and Germany. Anderson’s variety of assignments have also seen her: anchoring CNN’s programming of Charles and Camilla’s wedding in the UK with co-host CNN’s Anderson Cooper; Prince Rainier’s funeral in Monaco, and in 2006, in-depth location-based analysis of the Iranian nuclear dispute from the IAEA in Vienna, and CNN’s special coverage from Belgrade of the death of Slobodan Milosovic.

Anderson is a skilled interviewer, adept at the close questioning of many of the worlds leading politicians. Most recently, she has conducted in-depth, one-on-one interviews with the presidents of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Liberia, Venezuela, Serbia, the Ukraine and Georgia. She regularly speaks to the world’s prime ministers and her nightly show attracts the most-influential opinion formers.

With her roots in business journalism, Anderson has a deep understanding of the global economy, underlined by her annual coverage of the World Economic Forum from Davos, Switzerland, and her comprehensive work in the lead-up to the 2005 G8 summit where she interviewed, amongst others, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Live 8’s Bob Geldof and U2’s Bono.

Since the launch of ‘Business International’ in 2001, Anderson has hosted interviews with most of the top names from the world of business and finance, including the CEOs from many of the biggest blue-chip companies, central bankers and the world’s finance and commerce ministers.

In addition to her role as a news and business anchor, Anderson has also been a regular presenter of CNN’s distinctive feature programming and until the end of 2005 was the monthly presenter of the management show ‘Global Office’. Between 2002 and 2005, she also presented CNN’s golf programme ‘Living Golf’ and the network’s original sailing show ‘Inside Sailing’.

Anderson joined CNN as the launch anchor for CNN’s breakfast business show ‘World Business This Morning’, a key step in CNN’s ongoing regionalisation strategy – conceived to bring locally-produced programming to the European market place. She was part of the first phase of live morning programming to come out of CNN’s London production centre.

Anderson has extensive business journalism experience including posts with the UK’s ITN, CNBC Europe and Bloomberg. She began her career in journalism as a print reporter with various business publications in Arizona after gaining a Master of Mass Communication from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University in 1992.

Anderson is British and lives in London. She has also has a BA (Hons) degree in Economics and French from Sussex University.