Amanda Davies
| Amanda Davies | |
|---|---|
| Born |
24 March 1980 Manchester, England |
| Education |
Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, Elstree King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
| Occupation | Sportscaster |
| Years active | 2001 – present |
| Family | David Davies (father) |
Amanda Davies (born 24 March 1980) is a British sports presenter on CNN International.
Davies was born on 24 March 1980 in Manchester. She is the daughter of sports journalist and sports administrator David Davies. Amanda was educated from the age of five to nine at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in Elstree, Hertfordshire, before the family moved to the Midlands, where she continued her education at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Edgbaston, Birmingham. She later graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 2001 with a degree in Geography, where she won the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize for journalism.
Davies joined Sky Sports as a runner straight from university in 2001. Later as an assistant producer she worked on a wide range of live sporting events, including the Cricket World Cup and US Open. Davies joined Sky Sports News and worked in several positions, including assistant news editor, presenter and on-the-road producer, most notably spending seven weeks in Berlin producing the Sky Sports News coverage of the 2006 World Cup from Germany. She was also an occasional reporter, making her presenting debut on Sky Sports News with Ian Payne in 2005.
She joined the BBC in April 2007. She was a regular presenter of sports bulletins on the BBC News Channel (formerly News 24), BBC World News, and Breakfast on BBC One – as well as the sports bulletins on the BBC 1 weekend news. She was the presenter of BBC News F1 preview show Inside F1 every Friday and Saturday of race weekends, and in the 2008–09 season she presented a weekly chat-based football programme on BBC World called Sport Today: Football Review.
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