Anderson Hays Cooper is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator, currently anchoring CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° and serving as a 60 Minutes correspondent for CBS News.
After graduating from Yale University in 1989, he began his career covering war-torn regions for Channel One News.
He joined ABC News in 1995 before moving to CNN in 2001.
Cooper gained prominence through his on-the-ground reporting, particularly during Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
He has won 18 Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards.
A member of the Vanderbilt family, Cooper came out as gay in 2012, becoming the most prominent gay journalist on American television.
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