Francine Lacqua

Francine Lacqua is an award-winning, London-based anchor and editor-at-large for Bloomberg Television. She anchors the weekday program "The Pulse", delivering deep analysis of the biggest business and finance stories live from Bloomberg Television's London studio, as well as “Bloomberg Surveillance” with Tom Keene, where she provides insight on global markets and the top business stories of the day. She also presents "Leaders with Lacqua," a special series where she sits down with top CEOs, entrepreneurs and public figures.

Since joining Bloomberg in 2000, Lacqua has covered the World Economic Forum in Davos, IMF in Washington, G20 meetings, the EU Leaders Summit and OPEC.

In 2013 Lacqua won 'International TV Personality of the Year' at the AIB Media Awards. She was previously nominated in 2009 and 2010. In 2012, she was part of the Bloomberg team that won the OPEC award for 'Public Interest Reporting'. She is fluent in French and Italian.