Margaret Brennan

Margaret Brennan is a Correspondent for CBS News. She is based in Washington, DC and principally assigned to the State Department.

Most recently, Brennan was an anchor at Bloomberg television and the host of ‘InBusiness with Margaret Brennan’ aired from 10 am-noon ET. The daily program broadcast from the floor of the NYSE. It focused on the global markets and the interconnection of Wall Street, Main Street and K Street. Since joining BTV in 2009, Brennan's reporting has brought her around the world for interviews with leading CEOs, investors and heads of state. She was the only Western journalist anchoring from Tahrir Square in Cairo as Hosni Mubarak stepped down after 30 years in power.

She has covered top breaking news stories including the bankruptcy of MF Global, the News Corporation hacking scandal and the sentencing of Galleon Group's Raj Rajaratnam, the largest insider trading case in U.S. history. Brennan also helped lead anchor coverage of Bloomberg's Republican presidential candidate debate.

After anger over the collapse of the Irish economy led to the biggest shift of political power in that country's history, she had an exclusive interview with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny during his first trip to the US. HRH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai and Crown Prince Hamdan al Maktoum granted her their first joint interview and discussed the emirate's sovereign debt crisis. Since coming to BTV in July 2009, Brennan has broadcast live from Riyadh, Dubai, Cairo, London, Dublin and Davos, Switzerland. Brennan also filed special reports from London and the Gulf Coast of the US during the BP oil spill.

Brennan joined Bloomberg Television in 2009 from CNBC, where she served as a general assignment reporter and contributed to MSNBC and NBC's "Today Show" and "Nightly News". She began her business news career in 2002 as a producer for financial news legend Louis Rukeyser.

Graduating with highest distinction from the University of Virginia with a bachelor's degree in foreign affairs and Middle East studies and a minor in Arabic language, Margaret Brennan was named an Emmerich-Wright Scholar for an outstanding thesis. As a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, she studied Arabic at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan.

Margaret Brennan is a Whitehead Fellow with the Foreign Policy Association, serves on the Advisory Board of the Smurfit School of Business at the University College Dublin and the Junior Board of the Waterside School. She is a member of the Economic Club of New York. She speaks Arabic.

Irish America magazine named her one of the top Irish Americans and one of the top 100 Irish-Americans in business and in media. In 2003, she was named one of the top journalists under the age of 30 by the NewsBios/TJFR Group.