Amanda Davies is an award-winning sports anchor for CNN International, based in the London bureau.

Since joining CNN in April 2012, Davies has served as an anchor of CNN’s ‘World Sport’ show and fronted the network’s coverage of every major sporting event. This includes the Summer and Winter Olympics, Football World Cups, Champions League Finals, The Tour de France and the World Athletics Championships.

Davies has led on key news stories in the sporting world including Lance Armstrong’s fall from grace, the FIFA corruption scandal, Russian doping controversy, the death of Oscar Pistorious’ girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, Leicester City’s fairytale Premier League campaign and the retirement of football legend Sir Alex Ferguson.

Alongside being an anchor for CNN ‘World Sport’, Davies has hosted several sponsored shows on the network, most notably ‘The Circuit’- following the F1 calendar around the globe, hosting live shows from the paddock on race weekends, and interviewing the leading names in the sport including 7-time F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton.

Davies has interviewed countless high profile names from all over the sports world, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Serena Williams, David Beckham, Usain Bolt, Michael Schumacher, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Neymar, Roger Federer, Chris Froome, Bradley Wiggins and Gianni Infantino.

In 2025, Davies won the coveted ‘Broadcast Journalist of the Year’ award at the British Sports Journalism Awards.

Before joining CNN, she was a presenter at the BBC, providing the sports news on the flagship BBC News weekend bulletins and BBC Breakfast. She also hosted international football show ‘Sports World Have Your Say’ on BBC World News, and ‘Your News’ – a weekly magazine show.

Davies started her career in production working for Sky Sports and Sky Sports News. She earned a Master’s degree in Geography from the University of Oxford, and whilst there was awarded the prestigious Philip Geddes Memorial prize for journalism. Amanda was born in Manchester, and now lives in West London.