Speaker bio
Anderson Cooper
Why Anderson Cooper is Captivating Audiences
Anderson Cooper is the anchor of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360°,” airing weeknights at 8 p.m. ET on CNN and is simulcast to an international audience on CNN International. Since April 2023, Anderson also hosts “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper,” airing Sundays on CNN, and the popular podcast “All There Is with Anderson Cooper.” Cooper is also a regular correspondent for CBS’s “60 Minutes” and a best-selling author.
Since the start of his career in 1992, Cooper has worked in nearly eighty countries and has covered major news events around the world, often reporting from the scene.
Cooper has also played a pivotal role in CNN’s political and election coverage. He has anchored from conventions and moderated several presidential primary debates and town halls. In 2016, Cooper was selected by the Committee On Presidential Debates to co-moderate one of the three debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
In addition to his shows on CNN, Cooper is also a regular correspondent for CBS’s 60 Minutes.
At CNN and 60 Minutes, Cooper has won a number of major journalism awards. He helped lead CNN’s Peabody Award- winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and duPont Award-winning coverage of the 2004 tsunami. Additionally, he has been awarded twenty Emmy Awards, including two for his coverage of the earthquake in Haiti, and an Edward R. Murrow Award.
Cooper’s four books—Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss and Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of Wars, Disaster, and Survival — all topped the New York Times Best-seller List.
Before joining CNN, Cooper was an ABC News correspondent and host of the network’s reality program The Mole. Cooper anchored ABC’s overnight newscast World News Now, and was a correspondent for World News Tonight as well as 20/20.
Cooper joined ABC from Channel One News, where he served as chief international correspondent. During that time, he reported and produced stories, from conflicts in Bosnia, Cambodia, Haiti, Israel, Myanmar, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, and South Africa. Channel One News was a school television network seen daily in more than 12,000 classrooms nationwide.
Cooper graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He also studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi. Cooper is based in New York City.
Moderator, Kyle Clark
Kyle Clark is a journalist at 9NEWS, where he has worked since 2007. He is the anchor and managing editor of the 6pm weeknight program, Next, leading a team that has been honored four times with the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation. He is a political reporter for 9NEWS and he moderates the station's nationally-recognized political debates. His weekly Word of Thanks microgiving campaigns have raised $13M for Colorado's non-profits. He also anchors 9NEWS at 9 and 10pm.
