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Anne Sinclair is a French television and radio interviewer, who hosted one of the most popular political shows during more than thirteen years on TF1, the largest European private TV channel. She also covered the 2008 American Presidential campaign for the leading French Sunday paper, Le Journal du Dimanche, and the French TV channel Canal +.

Born in New York, in 1948, Anne Sinclair studied in France. She graduated in politics from Sciences-Po Paris Institute of Political Studies and in law from the University of Paris. After graduation, Anne Sinclair's first radio hosting job was at Europe 1, one of the leading nationwide radio networks. But it is on TV that she gained national prominence and became recognized as one of the premier journalists of France.

In 1984, she created and hosted 7/7, a weekly Sunday evening broadcast news and political show on TF1, with 10 to 12 million viewers weekly - a record number for a political program in Europe. She became one of the most renowned French journalists, and conducted more than 500 interviews over the course of her show's thirteen year run. She won four Sept d'Or, the French equivalent of the Emmy Awards.

She then created the Internet subsidiary company for her former employer TF1 and ran it for four years before returning to journalism. In 2003, she launched a cultural radio program, called Libre Cours (Free Rein) on France Inter, the French equivalent of NPR.

She also wrote several bestsellers on politics: Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'eux (Grasset, 1997) and Caméra Subjective (Grasset, 2003).

Anne Sinclair lives in Washington D.C. with her husband, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund since November 2007.

In October 2008, she launched her blog, called Two or three things from America (Anne Sinclair's Blog), which comments daily on American and international political news, and has become one of the top twelve political French blogs.

She is also working on her latest book about American political life.