Isa Soares is an award-winning international correspondent and anchor based in CNN’s London bureau. She hosts Isa Soares Tonight which airs weeknights at 2pm ET (7pm London).

As a correspondent, Soares has covered the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and on the border with Colombia, and won an Emmy Award for her investigation on President Maduro’s gold mining in Venezuela. In 2020, she went undercover in Caracas to reveal the abhorrent conditions in Venezuela’s public hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic, for which she has been nominated for an Emmy.

In 2020 and 2021, Soares drew attention to the plight of Brazil Yanomami indigenous tribe with exclusive reports from the Amazon. She has continuously reported on the changing political landscape of Brazil under President Jair Bolsonaro and interviewed the then-candidate Lula da Silva and São Paulo Mayor João Doria ahead of Brazil’s presidential elections in 2022.

Soares was among the first on the ground to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Irma — reporting from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. She has also reported extensively from Europe, covering the UK and French general elections, the Greek economic crisis, the terror attack in Nice, Brexit developments and Portugal’s EURO 2016 win against France. Soares reported on the terror attack in Barcelona and Catalonia’s bid for independence in 2017, filed an extensive report looking at Macedonia’s role in the production of fake news, and covered the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, for which she won an AIB award.

As an anchor, Soares has interviewed such leading political and economic figures as Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Former U.S. Defense Secretary/Former CIA director Leon Panetta, Former Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-Moon, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, British foreign secretary Philip Hammond, Vice-President of the European Commission Antonio Tajani, President of the National Assembly of Venezuela Juan Guaidó and Qatari Assistant Foreign Minister Lolwah Al-Khater. She has also interviewed football legend Pele and tennis legend Rafael Nadal and had a rare sit-down with LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault.

Soares received a Bachelor’s degree in Hispanic and Lusophone studies from King’s College London and a Master’s degree in International Relations and Economics from the University of Bristol. She is fluent in Spanish, French and Portuguese. She was born and raised in Lisbon, spent time in Andalucia and now resides in London.