Francine Lacqua
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| Born | December 15, 1978 |
| Occupation | Television Journalist |
| Television | Bloomberg Surveillance |
| Awards | Television Personality of the Year (2013) |
Francine Lacqua (born December 15, 1978) is a journalist, television anchor and editor-at-large for Bloomberg Television. She is fluent in English, Italian and French.
She was born in Italy, of Italian parents. While she was growing-up, her father, Pier Antonio Lacqua, a journalist working for the Italian news agency, Ansa, was posted in Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom. He covered the Cold War and was a political expert. As a result, she lived in Moscow from the age of 1 until the age of 6, in Washington DC from the age of 6 to 15 and thereafter in London until she went to Paris for her studies in 1998. Her father was the first journalist to interview Andrei Sakharov when he was exiled. The interview is displayed at the Sakharov Museum in Nizhny Novgorod.
Whilst living in Washington, she attended the Lycee Rochambeau. She later joined the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London where she completed her Baccalauréat. Following school, in 1996 she was accepted on the double-degree in English and French law at King’s College London and Universite de Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne. She graduated in 2000 with an LLB in English law and Maitrise en droit.
She joined Bloomberg as an intern in the summer of 2000, initially working for French television, based in London, UK. Later that year she was offered a permanent position with French Television, working as a producer. In 2001 she began to present news output in French.
In 2003 she moved to Bloomberg’s UK television output, where she began to appear as a reporter, covering OPEC meetings, meetings of the European Finance Ministers, G7, and World Economic Forum meetings (including their annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland). During this time she also carried out in depth interviews with Mark Mobius, George Soros, Christine Lagarde, Warren Buffett, and Claude Trichet.
In 2004 she was one of the last foreign journalists to interview the then Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafic Hariri. He was assassinated in the same spot where the interview took place a year later.
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