Personal Finance Book Biography
Liu was born in Hong Kong and was raised in Philadelphia, PA. She attended Central High School and then graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English.
She has been married twice, first to Benjamin L. Walter (whom she divorced in 2006[1][2]) and currently to William,[1] an Australian news executive whom she met in Hong Kong.[3]
She is a mother of twin boys, Dylan and Zachary, who were born July 21, 2004, by her first husband. They live in Millburn NJ.[4]
She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and speaks some Cantonese.Liu jumpstarted her career in financial journalism while acting as the youngest-ever Taiwan Bureau Chief for Dow Jones Newswires.[5][6]
After she left Dow Jones, she worked for several years as the Atlanta Bureau Chief for the Financial Times,[6][7] where she broke stories on top corporate and political leaders such as Coca-Cola ex-chief executive Douglas Daft, former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
Returning to Asia as an anchor and correspondent for CNBC Asia,[6][8] Liu covered the daily market action in the Greater China region for all of CNBC's morning shows, including for CNBC's Squawk Box.[5]
Over the course of her career, she has also written for The Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Philadelphia magazine.
She now works for Bloomberg Television.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 Fortune 500 companies based in the South (Coca-Cola, Home Depot, UPS, FedEx) earned her a spot on TJFR's "Top 30 business journalists under 30 list"[9] three years in a row (2000–2002). The FT also entered her series of articles on immigrant labor in the South for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000[5].
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.[citation needed]
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.[10]
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