22 Facts About Katty Kay

Katherine "Katty" Kay was born on 14 November 1964 and is a British-Swiss journalist, author and broadcaster.

Katty Kay presented BBC World News America and, with Christian Fraser, hosted Beyond 100 Days on BBC Four, BBC News and BBC World News.

Katty Kay has anchored BBC coverage of two Presidential elections.

Katty Kay appears weekly on NBC News on Morning Joe.

Kay co-hosted the podcast When Katty Met Carlos with Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson.

Katty Kay resigned from Ozy Media in September 2021 after a New York Times report raised questions about its business practices.

Katty Kay has co-hosted the podcast The Rest is Politics: US Edition since April 2024.

Katty Kay is a board member at the International Women's Media Foundation.

Katty Kay was born on 14 November 1964 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire in 1964 and grew up in Blewbury.

Katty Kay has two brothers and one sister; and is of English and Swiss descent.

Katty Kay studied modern languages at St Hilda's College, Oxford and speaks fluent French and Italian.

Katty Kay graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988.

Katty Kay joined the BBC in 1990 as Zimbabwe correspondent for the African section of the BBC World Service.

Katty Kay 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, DC, in 1996.

From June 2004, Katty 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.

Katty Kay makes frequent appearances as a guest panellist on Morning Joe and Meet the Press on NBC, Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, and in the past appeared on The Chris Matthews Show, and Larry King Live on CNN.

Katty Kay occasionally substituted for Diane Rehm on The Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio.

Katty Kay anchored coverage of US Presidential Election nights across all BBC platforms in 2016 and 2020, on both occasions presenting with Andrew Neil.

On 24 June 2021, Katty Kay announced that the night's broadcast would be her last for the BBC.

On 24 May 2017, Katty Kay attracted criticism for stating that Europeans should "get used to" terrorist attacks.

In 1989 Katty Kay married Tom Carver, an ex-BBC reporter and head of global communications at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Katty Kay has lived in the Georgetown neighbourhood of Washington, DC since 1996.