Stephen Sedgwick is a co-anchor on "Squawk Box," CNBC's flagship program in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Sedgwick is also CNBC's OPEC reporter, covering major meetings and interviewing top OPEC oil ministers and heads of bodies such as the IEA and the EIA. Prior to joining CNBC, Sedgwick worked for the U.K. Press Association on the city desk and at Dow Jones on the European markets desk. At Dow Jones, Sedgwick regularly broke market-moving stories and was a contributor to the Wall Street Journal Europe. Before his career in journalism, Sedgwick spent 11 years trading in the financial markets, specializing in equity and bond market derivative products. In 1988, Sedgwick joined Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (formerly Kleinwort Benson Securities) and worked as an equity option market maker before moving on to Credit Lyonnais, where he became head of the London option market-making team on the Liffe exchange. Sedgwick studied politics at the University of London, with a focus on world economic development, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO.

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