Charles Hodson is anchor of the CNN International daily evening business programme ‘World Business Today’. Two editions of this in-depth programme round up the day’s business and financial market news and include keynote interviews with major business players and updates on Wall Street and the European markets.
During his time with CNN's news team in London, Hodson has interviewed some of the most powerful men in European government, including the European Commission President, Romano Prodi and German Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder.
In addition, Hodson has interviewed some of the most influential people in business including heads of leading European banking institutions and CEOs of a wide number of industries. In the banking world, interviewees have included European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings Sir John Bond. From the world of business Hodson’s interviewees feature DaimlerChrysler CEO Jürgen Schrempp, Renault Chairman Louis Schweitzer, Novartis President and CEO Daniel Vasella, Nokia Chairman and CEO Jorma Ollila, De Beers Chairman Nicky Oppenheimer, GSK CEO Jean-Pierre Garnier, BP Chief Executive Lord Browne, Royal Dutch/Shell Chairman Jeroen van der Weer and Vodafone Chief Executive Arun Sarin.
Hodson joined CNN’s ‘World Business Today’ team in January 1995 as financial news correspondent reporting on business and financial activity in Europe for the network. In 1997, he anchored CNN’s ‘Pinnacle Europe’ from its inception, a series of 50 programmes profiling corporate leaders. He subsequently moved in 1999 to launch the morning business show ‘World Business This Morning’, a key component of CNN’s ongoing regionalisation strategy to bring locally produced programming to the European market place. Later on that year, Hodson took over as anchor of ‘World Business Today’.
Hodson has travelled extensively throughout Europe covering economic and corporate stories, and conferences and summits including: G7, EU, OPEC, IMF and World Bank meetings; the World Economic Forum in Davos and the CeBIT IT fair in Hanover.
Before joining CNN, Hodson was Europe correspondent for ITN's 'Channel Four Daily'. He began his career as a BBC News Trainee and worked for BBC Radio in Brussels. In 1982 he joined ITN to set up Channel 4 news and spent 10 years with the channel as domestic and then European reporter, helping ITN earn two Royal Television Society team awards for its coverage of the 1984-85 UK miners’ strike and 1985 Tottenham riots. Hodson then moved to Berlin and presented Deutsche Welle TV's English-language programme 'Journal'.
Hodson is a native of the United Kingdom. He was a scholar at both Eton College and Oxford University and holds a bachelor degree in politics and economics. He is fluent in German and French.
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