Akiko Fujita is a veteran journalist, with more than 20 years of experience in international business and tech news. She was most recently at Yahoo Finance, where she anchored the platform's daily live news casts, while also reporting on the intersection of geopolitics and technology, along with climate issues. Prior to that, she spent nearly 8 years as a foreign correspondent based in Asia, working for ABC News and CNBC International, where she co-hosted Squawk Box Asia out of Hong Kong. In that capacity, she traveled across the region reporting on the biggest business and political stories and interviewing the most influential leaders. Akiko is a native of Los Angeles and graduate of the University of Southern California.