Amanda Drury (born 5 May 1973) is an Australian

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and

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for

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, hosting finance and business programming from

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. She was the co-host of the US version of ''

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'' until its end on February 6, 2015 and has appeared on other various CNBC shows as an expert in finance and business.

Early life and education

Drury was born in

Melbourne, Victoria Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung–Taungurung language, Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the St ...

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. She received a bachelor's degree in fine arts, Japanese and French from the

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and attended the

Australian Film, Television and Radio School The Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) formerly Australian Film and Television School, is Australia's national screen arts and broadcast school. The school is a Commonwealth Government statutory authority. History Establishe ...

Career

Drury started working in Japan in

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. She began her broadcast career in radio before making the switch to TV working for

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Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

from 1999 to 2000. She joined CNBC in January 2001 and spent eight years based at its Asia-Pacific headquarters in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. She was stationed in CNBC Sydney in 2009 before being transferred to CNBC's global headquarters in

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in May 2010. Drury’s first position at CNBC USA was as the co-anchor of "The Call". Drury has appeared on other various CNBC shows and segments. She became the co-presenter of '' The Call'' (US version) in March 2011. Drury was a finalist in the 2007 and 2008

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in the category of Best News Presenter.

References

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