Anderson H. Cooper

Since the start of his career in 1992, Anderson Cooper has worked in nearly eighty countries and has covered major news events around the world, often reporting from the scene. He is currently the anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°, hosts The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, hosts the All There Is with Anderson Cooper podcast, and serves as 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-three 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. 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.