Amanda Davies Biography
Amanda Davies is an award-winning sportscaster from England working as a sports correspondent and anchor for CNN International, located in the London bureau. She joined CNN in April 2012.
How old is Amanda Davies? – Age
The CNN Sports presenter is 41 years old as of March 24, 2021. She was born in 1980 in Manchester, United Kingdom.
Amanda Davies Family – Parents and Education
She together with her sister Caroline Davies are the daughters of Susan Davies and David Davies, a sports journalist and sports administrator. She was educated from five to nine years of age at Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls in Elstree, Hertfordshire, until the family moved to the McCains, where she began her schooling at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Edgbaston, Birmingham. She graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 2001 with a degree in Geography and received the Philip Geddes Memorial Award for Journalism.
Amanda Davies Husband
She together with her husband Sam Davies. The couple has a daughter Molly Davies who was born in 2009.
Amanda Davies CNN – Career
Amanda has endured coverage by the ‘World Sport’ network for a variety of big events. That includes the Summer and Winter Olympics, the Basketball World Cups, the Champions League Finals, the Tour de France, and the World Athletics Championships. Amanda headed key news reports in the sporting community, including Lance Armstrong’s fall from grace, the FIFA corruption crisis, the Russian Doping Case, the death of Oscar Pistorious’ girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the Premier League’s Leicester City Fairytale Drive, and the retirement of the football great Sir Alex Ferguson.
Besides being a reporter for CNN ‘World Sport,’ Amanda presented a variety of sponsored programs on the network, most notably ‘The Circuit’-following the world’s F1 schedule, presenting live paddock shows on race days, and interviewing leading names in the sport, including five-time F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton.
Amanda interviewed great people from all leading sports including Serena Williams, David Beckham, Chris Froome, Bradley Wiggins, Usain Bolt, Michael Schumacher, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Neymar, Roger Federer, and Gianni Infantino. Since joining CNN, Amanda was a presenter at the BBC, broadcasting sporting coverage on the flagship BBC News and BBC Breakfast weekends.
She also presented an international soccer program ‘Sports World Have Your Say’ on BBC World News, and ‘Your News’—a weekly magazine show. Amanda began her career in production for Sky Sports and Sky Sports News. She graduated from Oxford University with a Master’s degree in Geography and was awarded the prestigious Philip Geddes Memorial Prize for Journalism.
Amanda Davies Net Worth
Amanda earns an annual salary of $ 135k, she has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
