PERSON: David Westin

Anchor

David Lawrence Westin is anchor of Bloomberg Wall Street Week on Bloomberg Television. Previously, he was an anchor on Bloomberg Balance of Power, Bloomberg Daybreak Americas and Bloomberg GO which Daybreak replaced. He has anchored for Bloomberg since 2015. From 2014 to 2015, he was principal of Witherbee Holdings, LLC, advising and investing in media companies. He was the president and CEO of NewsRight from 2011 to 2012.

Westin was raised in Flint, Michigan, the son of a tool-and-die maker at AC Spark Plug. His father earned a college degree taking night classes and after graduation he took a management position at Ford’s plastics plant in Saline, Michigan. The Westins then moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Westin graduated from Pioneer High School. In 1970. He received a BA degree with honors and distinction from the University of Michigan, and a JD degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 1977. After graduation, he served as a law clerk to J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and later clerked for Lewis F. Powell of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1978 to 1979.

Westin has written the book Exit Interview, about his experiences as president of ABC News. It was released in May 2012.

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