THE CONFIDENCE CODE: WHAT WOMEN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SELF ASSURANCE

This Salon featured Katty Kay, anchor of BBC World News America, based in Washington DC. She is also a frequent contributor to Meet the Press and Morning Joe. She is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Womenomics. Her new books, also with Claire Shipman, are The Confidence Code for Girls, and New York Times bestseller, The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self Assurance - What Women Should Know.

Katty began her career with BBC in Zimbabwe in 1990 where she filed radio reports for the Africa Service of BBC World Service radio. She went on to work as a BBC correspondent in London, and later Tokyo. She settled in Washington in 1996 where she took some time out of broadcast journalism to join The Times Washington bureau before returning to the BBC in 2002. She studied modern languages at Oxford and is a fluent French and Italian speaker with some "rusty Japanese".