Francine Lacqua is an award-winning London-based anchor for Bloomberg Television. She anchors the daily weekday program “The Pulse with Francine Lacqua’ which features exclusive interviews with high profile guests from the worlds of global business, economics, finance and politics.
She also presents “Leaders with Francine Lacqua,” a special series for Bloomberg Originals 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, 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, ECB President Christine Lagarde, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as well as Billionaire financier George Soros and former ECB President Mario Draghi. .She has also interviewed finance ministers from South Korea, Russia, France, Mexico, Italy and Greece, as well as moderating televised debates from the World Economic Forum in Davos and the ECB Forum on Central Banking in Sintra.