Andrea Catherwood

Andrea Catherwood is a London-based anchor and host of Bloomberg Television’s weekday European business program, “Last Word," which offers real-time analysis of breaking stories, exclusive interviews with global newsmakers and coverage of the last hour of trading in European markets.

Catherwood brings a wealth of international news experience to Bloomberg Television. Throughout her career, she has interviewed various world leaders including former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Burmese human rights leader Aung San Suu Kyi and major politicians including the last four British Prime Ministers.

Since joining Bloomberg Television in 2009, Catherwood has interviewed Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Royal Dutch Shell CEO Peter Voser, Royal Bank of Scotland CEO Stephen Hester, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management Jim O'Neill, former Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson of Iceland and Prince Andrew.

Prior to joining Bloomberg Television, Catherwood anchored and produced for ITV1, CNBC, NBC Asia, and Five News. Throughout her career, she has covered major news stories in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Mozambique and Guantanamo Bay. She anchored from London’s 2007 bombings, New York City post-9/11, the frontlines of Baghdad, and covertly with British Forces in Iraq. Catherwood was also the first British journalist into Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan after the city fell to the Northern Alliance in 2001. There, she produced a number of exclusive reports, including an interview with warlord General Dostum before she was injured in a suicide grenade attack.

She was born and raised in Northern Ireland, and earned an honors degree in law from the University of Manchester.