Margaret Brennan

Margaret Brennan is the anchor of “InBusiness with Margaret Brennan," a weekday business program that covers the intersection of Wall Street, Main Street, K Street and the global markets. Based in New York City, Brennan brings together interviews, analysis and perspective as the U.S. trading day gains momentum.

She has covered top breaking news stories including the bankruptcy of MF Global, the News Corporation hacking scandal and the sentencing of Galleon Group's Raj Rajaratnam, the largest insider trading case in U.S. history. Brennan also helped lead anchor coverage of Bloomberg's Republican presidential candidate debate.

Brennan's reporting has brought her around the world for interviews with leading CEOs, investors and heads of state. She was the only American journalist anchoring from Tahrir Square in Cairo as Hosni Mubarak stepped down after 30 years in power.

After anger over the collapse of the Irish economy led to the biggest shift of political power in that country's history, she had an exclusive interview with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny during his first trip to the US. HRH Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum of Dubai and Crown Prince Hamdan al Maktoum granted her their first joint interview and discussed the emirate's sovereign debt crisis.

Since coming to BTV in July of 2009, Brennan has broadcast live from Riyadh, Dubai, Cairo, London, Dublin and Davos, Switzerland. Brennan also filed special reports from London and the Gulf Coast of the US during the BP oil spill.

Brennan joined Bloomberg Television in 2009 from CNBC, where she served as a general assignment reporter and contributed to MSNBC and NBC's "Today Show" and "Nightly News". She began her business news career in 2002 as a producer for financial news legend Louis Rukeyser.

Graduating with highest distinction from the University of Virginia with a bachelor's degree in foreign affairs and Middle East studies and a minor in Arabic language, Margaret Brennan was named an Emmerich-Wright Scholar for an outstanding thesis. As a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, she studied Arabic at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan.

Margaret Brennan is a Whitehead Fellow with the Foreign Policy Association, serves on the Advisory Board of the Smurfit School of Business at the University College Dublin and the Junior Board of the Waterside School. She speaks Arabic.