Katty Kay

Katherine "Katty" Kay (born 14 November 1964) is an English journalist. She presents BBC World News America and, with Christian Fraser, co-hosts Beyond 100 Days on BBC Four, BBC News and BBC World News. She also appears weekly on NBC News in Morning Joe. Kay has written two books. On 2 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 15 April 2014, HarperBusiness published The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know, a book written by Kay and Shipman. She is a board member at the International Women's Media Foundation. 2Early life and education Kay was born in Wallingford and grew up in Blewbury (then in Berkshire, now in Oxfordshire). She spent time in various Middle East countries where her father was posted as a British diplomat. She studied modern languages at Oxford and speaks fluent French and Italia