Betty W. Liu ( zh, 刘文思) is the Executive Vice Chairman of the

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and the Chief Experience Officer of

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. Liu joined the NYSE Group after ICE acquired Radiate, the ed-tech startup she founded. Liu is a former news anchor for

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, a subsidiary of

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A business journalist, Liu regularly interviewed influential business, political and media leaders including Warren Buffett,

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, and Arianna Huffington. Liu was the founder and

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of ed-tech startup Radiate, based in New York City.

Early life

Liu was born in Hong Kong, moved to the United States when she was three years old, and from age twelve was raised in

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. Liu attended Central High School.

Education

Liu graduated magna cum laude in 1995 from the

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with a degree in English.

Career

Liu started her career in financial journalism as a Hong Kong-based regional correspondent and youngest Taiwan Bureau Chief for

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. After she left Dow Jones, she worked for several years as the Atlanta Bureau Chief for the ''

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'', where she broke stories on top corporate and political leaders such as

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ex-chief executive Douglas Daft, former

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CEO

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, and former U.S. President

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. Returning to Asia as an anchor and correspondent for CNBC Asia, Liu covered the daily market action in the Greater China region for all of CNBC's morning shows, including for CNBC's ''

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''. Over the course of her career, she has also written for ''

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'' and ''

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'' From 2007 to 2018, she worked for

, formerly anchoring "In the Loop with Betty Liu" from its inception in 2007 until the show's cancelation in June 2015, which was replaced with "Market Movers". Liu then anchored the morning program "Daybreak Asia" out of NYC and was an Editor-at-Large at Bloomberg. She also hosted "In the Loop, At the Half" on Bloomberg Radio. In 2017 Liu founded RadiateInc.com, a subscription website offering business micro-lessons from the top CEOs. Liu became

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's Media Entrepreneur in Residence in October 2017. Radiate Inc was acquired by

in 2018, and Liu became Executive Vice Chairman of ICE. In 2021, Liu founde
D and Z Media Acquisition Corp
a SPAC that focuses on the emerging subscription economy.

Awards

In 1997, she received a Dow Jones Newswires Award for her coverage of the Asian financial crisis. Her coverage while at FT of the biggest

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companies based in the South (Coca-Cola, Home Depot,

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, FedEx) earned her a spot on TJFR's "Top 30 business journalists under 30 list" three years in a row (2000–2002). On October 27, 2011, Betty Liu became the first female and Asian student to be inducted into Central High School's Alumni Hall of Fame.Central High School Hall of Fame
The Associated Alumni of The Central High School of Philadelphia, Central High School, Philadelphia. In 2012, Bloomberg TV ran an advertising campaign incorrectly touting Liu as "Pulitzer Prize-nominated". When contacted by msnbc.com, Bloomberg TV acknowledged the error and said it would correct the ads. The same claim of a Pulitzer nomination was made by the publisher of her biography, ''Age Smart: Discovering the Fountain of Youth at Midlife and Beyond''.

Personal life

Liu has been married twice, first to Ohio neurologist Benjamin L. Walter (also a Central High School graduate, whom she married on September 14, 2002 and divorced in 2006
/ref>) and then to William Browning, an Australian news executive whom she met in Hong Kong. They divorced in 2012. Liu is a mother of twin boys, Dylan and Zachary, who were born July 21, 2004, by her first husband. They live in

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.Anderson, Susan
"In the loop with Betty Liu"
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'', September 21, 2010 Liu is fluent in Mandarin, and speaks some Cantonese.

Bibliography

* Jeffrey A. Rosensweig, Ph.D. and Betty Liu, ''Age Smart: Discovering the Fountain of Youth at Midlife and Beyond'' (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, April 2006 ) * Betty Liu, ''Work Smarts: What CEOs Say You Need To Know to Get Ahead'' (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, December 9, 2013 )

References

External links

Official website at Bloomberg.com

"The Business of Life," Betty Liu, CNBC
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