Katty Kay Biography

Katty is a British journalist , author , and broadcaster . She presents BBC World News America and , with Christian Fraser , hosts Beyond 100 Days on BBC Four , BBC News , and BBC World News . She has anchored BBC coverage of two Presidential elections .

Katty Kay Age

Katty was born on November 14th , November , 1964 in Wallingford , United Kingdom .

Katty Kay Career

She appears weekly on NBC News in Morning Joe . In May , 2021 it was made known that longtime BBC News anchor and correspondent Katty Kay is leaving her post to become a senior editor and executive producer , of OZY Media . She has written two books . On 2nd , June , 2009 , Harper Collins published Womenomics , a book written by Kay and ABC News’ Good Morning America senior national correspondent Claire Shipman exploring the redefinition of success for working women based on recent trends of the value of women to the business world .

On 15th , April , 2014 , The Confidence Code : The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know was published , written by Kay and Shipman . She is the co-host of the podcast When Katty Met Carlos with OZY Media CEO Carlos Watson .

Kay is a board member at the International Women’s Media Foundation . After graduation , she briefly worked for the Bank of England . Deciding a career in economics was not for her , she left to work for an aid agency in Zimbabwe . A short time later , a friend , Matt Frei , came to her with a tape recorder and persuaded her to become a journalist . She joined the BBC in 1990 as Zimbabwe correspondent for the African section of the BBC World Service .

She then returned to London to work for BBC World Service radio , before being posted to Tokyo for BBC News television in 1992 and then Washington , D.C. , in 1996 . Soon afterward , she joined The Times news bureau but returned to the BBC as a freelance journalist in 2002 , based in the United States . From June , 2004 , Kay co-presented the BBC World news bulletins with Mike Embley in London , shown on 230 public broadcast-television stations throughout the US and on BBC America . In October , 2007 , she became correspondent to presenter Matt Frei of BBC World’s one-hour Washington-based news broadcast , BBC World News America .

It airs on BBC News , BBC America , and BBC World News . She currently anchors the show . She makes frequent appearances as a guest panelist on Morning Joe and Meet the Press on NBC , Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO , and in the past also appeared on The Chris Matthews Show , and Larry King Live on CNN . She occasionally substituted for Diane Rehm on The Diane Rehm Show on NPR .

Until 2009 , she blogged at the website , True/Slant . In June , 2015 , She commented on the launch of Donald Trump bid to become President , predicting that his candidacy declaration would be the high point of his campaign . In 2018 , She made a brief appearance in the National Geographic documentary science-fiction series Mars . She anchored coverage of US Presidential Election nights across all BBC platforms in 2016 and 2020 , on both occasions presenting with Andrew Neil .

In 2021 she anchored the BBC’s coverage of the Presidential inauguration of Joe Biden . On 24th , May , 2017 , She attracted criticism for stating that Europeans should “get used to” Islamist terror attacks . Speaking on MSNBC two days after the Manchester Arena bombing , she argued that “we are never going to be able to totally wipe this out .” UKIP leader Nigel Farage strongly condemned Kay’s comments , stating “Never .

If we accept this as a way of life that is giving in , it is appeasement , it is surrendering .” She spent time in various Middle Eastern countries where her father was posted as a British diplomat . She studied modern languages at St Hilda’s College , Oxford , and speaks fluent French and Italian . She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988 .

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Katty Kay Family

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Katty Kay Husband

Katty has been married since 1989 to her husband , Tom Carver . He is an ex-BBC reporter and current Head of Global Communications , Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . They have four children and live in Washington D.C . She has four children known as Poppy Carver , Maya Carver , Felix Carver , and Jude Carver .

Katty Kay Education

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