Francine Lacqua

Francine Lacqua is a London-based anchor and senior correspondent for Bloomberg Television. She hosts the weekday program, "On the Move with Francine Lacqua," where she reports from major events around the world and interviews key global political, economic and business leaders. Lacqua is also co-host of "Countdown with Owen Thomas and Francine Lacqua," tracking all the stories that matter in the countdown to the European market openings.

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. She also led Bloomberg Television's coverage of the Italian and French elections where she was one of the first international reporters to interview cabinet members.

While at Bloomberg, Lacqua has interviewed former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet, HSBC Group Chairman Stephen Green, BNP Paribas CEO Baudouin Prot and billionaire financier George Soros, among others. She has also interviewed finance ministers from South Korea, Russia, France, Mexico and Greece, as well as moderated televised debates from the World Economic Forum in Davos and the European Economic Governance package.

Lacqua also hosts, "Eye to Eye," a special series where she sits down with top CEOs, entrepreneurs and public figures inside the world's most iconic Ferris wheel, the London Eye.

Lacqua was nominated in 2009 and 2010 for “Television Personality of the Year” at the AIB Awards. She has an LLB in English law from King’s College in London and earned her undergraduate degree at the Sorbonne. She is fluent in French and Italian.