Francine Lacqua is an award-winning anchor for Bloomberg Television. She anchors the daily weekday programme The Pulse with Francine Lacqua, which features exclusive interviews with high-profile guests from the worlds of global business, economics, finance and politics, and Leaders with Francine Lacqua, where she sits down with the decision-makers shaping our future to explore the personal stories behind their public personas.

Since joining Bloomberg in 2000, Lacqua has covered World Economic Forums in Davos, IMF meetings in Washington, G20 meetings, the EU Leaders Summit and OPEC. She has also anchored coverage of Brexit (i.e. the UK’s exit from the EU), the collapse of Credit Suisse and 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 high-profile figures, including French President Emmanuel Macron and Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates.