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Francine Lacqua (born 15 December 1978) is a British Italian journalist,
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for
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. She anchors "The Pulse with Francine Lacqua" every weekday from 0900-1000, and features program "Leaders with Lacqua" where she interviews top leaders in business, politics and finance. Lacqua is fluent in English, Italian and French.


Early life

Lacqua was born in Italy of Italian parents. She is based in London and often travels internationally for interviews with high-profile guests and notable business and political forums. While she was growing-up, her father, was posted in
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, the
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and the
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. He covered the
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and was a political expert. As a result, she lived in
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from the age of 1 until the age of 6, in
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, from the age of 6 to 15 and thereafter in
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until she went to
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for her studies in 1998.


Education

She was accepted on the double-degree in English and French law at
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and Universite de Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne. She graduated with an LLB in English law and Maitrise en droit.


Career

Lacqua joined
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as an intern in the summer of 2000, initially working for French television, based in London, UK. Later that year she was offered a permanent position with French Television, working as a producer. In 2001 she began to present news output in French. In 2003 she moved to Bloomberg's UK television output, where she began to appear as a reporter, covering OPEC meetings, meetings of the European Finance Ministers, G7, and World Economic Forum meetings (including their annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland). During this time she also carried out in depth interviews with
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, and
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. In 2004 she was one of the last foreign journalists to interview the then Lebanese Prime Minister,
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. He was assassinated in the same spot where the interview took place a year later. In 2008, she increasingly appeared as a news-anchor and, in 2010 began to present ''On the Move with Francine Lacqua'' until 2014, which was broadcast, to Europe, Asia and the United States. In 2011 she conceived a new interview-show called ''Eye to Eye'' which involved her interviewing a well-known personality in a pod in the
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. She interviewed, amongst others, Sir Philip Green, Margherita Missoni, Paul Smith, Christian Louboutin, Bianca Jagger and Sir Martin Sorrell. In 2012, she presented ''City Central'' with Guy Johnson. Both anchors moved to ''The Pulse'' in 2013. Following ''Eye to Eye'', Lacqua also hosted ''Leader's Lunch'' in 2013, which was replaced by ''Leaders with Lacqua'' shortly afterwards. On 5 October 2015 Lacqua became co-anchor of ''Bloomberg Surveillance'' in London alongside Tom Keene in New York. From 2023, Lacqua began hosting her weekday namesake show ''The Pulse with Francine Lacqua'' from London.


Awards

In 2012, she was part of the Bloomberg team that won the OPEC award for 'Public Interest Reporting' In 2013, she was the winner of Television Personality of the Year awarded by the ''Association of International Broadcasters''. On 3 May 2018 Lacqua received the Knighthood of the
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''(Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia)''. The award was given and presented by Raffaele Trombetta, Italian Ambassador, on behalf of the president of Italy, at the Italian embassy in London.


References

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