Biography

Bernard Lo is a Hong Kong-based anchor for CNBC. Prior to that he was a Hong Kong-based anchor at Bloomberg Television

Bloomberg Television

Bloomberg Television is a 24-hour global network broadcasting business and financial news. It is distributed globally, reaching over 200 million homes worldwide. It is owned and operated by Bloomberg L.P...

 since 2004. He also hosted the chat show Asia Confidential with Bernie Lo. He has interviewed Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

Lee Hsien Loong

Lee Hsien Loong is the third and current Prime Minister of Singapore. He is married to Ho Ching, who is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings. He is the eldest son of Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew....

 and Richard Branson

Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin Group of more than 400 companies....

 amongst others on the show. Prior to joining Bloomberg he was the Hong Kong Anchor and Talk Show Host for CNBC Asia.

He speaks Cantonese fluently, has been a permanent resident of Hong Kong since 1990, and is married with three cats, Mike, George and Max. Lo was born in Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, Canada

Canada

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 and is a Canadian citizen and also holds a British National (Overseas) passport

British National (Overseas) passport

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.

He started his broadcast career in Hong Kong with local Hong Kong station ATV

Asia Television Limited

Asia Television Limited is one of the two free-to-air television broadcasters in Hong Kong, the other being rival Television Broadcasts Limited . It launched in 1957 under the name Rediffusion Television as the first television station in Hong Kong...

, moved on to TVB

Television Broadcasts Limited

Television Broadcasts Limited, commonly known as TVB, is the second over-the-air commercial television station in Hong Kong. It commenced broadcasting on 19 November 1967...

, then hosted a business news magazine with the Television Corporation of Singapore

Television Corporation of Singapore

Television Corporation of Singapore was a private company that provide television broadcasting services in then monopolised media industry. TCS existed from 1 October 1994 to 11 February 2001; Singapore Broadcasting Corporation was privatised on 1 October 1994 at 00:00 am...

, before joining CNBC Hong Kong in 1995. After CNBC and Asia Business News merged their business TV operations in early 1998, Bernard rejoined the new CNBC Asia Pacific.

Lo is a graduate of Tacoma Community College

Tacoma Community College

Tacoma Community College is a community college located in Tacoma, Washington, with satellite operations in Gig Harbor and the Tacoma Mall. It serves the city of Tacoma and the Pierce County portion of the Kitsap Peninsula....

 in Tacoma, Washington, where he earned his A.A.Sc., he then earned a B.A. at The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is an accredited public liberal arts college and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. It is located in Olympia, Washington, USA. Founded in 1967, Evergreen was formed to be an experimental and non-traditional college...

 in Olympia, Washington and went on to receive a M.Sc. in Performing Arts Management at the University of Idaho

University of Idaho

The University of Idaho is the State of Idaho's flagship and oldest public university, located in the rural city of Moscow in Latah County in the northern portion of the state...

, Moscow, Idaho.

He won the Best Current Affairs Presenter trophy at the 2000 Asian Television Awards. His immediate family resides in the Seattle area.