Anne Thompson is NBC News' chief environmental affairs correspondent.Her reports appear across all platforms of NBC News including "NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt," "TODAY," MSNBC and NBCNews.com. Thompson previously served as the chief financial correspondent reporting on financial and economic news for NBC News. In 2000, Thompson was NBC News' lead correspondent covering the presidential campaigns. Thompson first joined NBC News in 1997 as a national correspondent. In 2006, Thompson received the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award, and was part of the "NBC Nightly News" team that won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Award and the Emmy Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. In 2004, she was awarded the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism for a series of reports that aired on "Nightly News" on the jobless economic recovery. She was also nominated for four business and financial news Emmys. Thompson received her high school diploma from the International School of Brussels in Belgium. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from University of Notre Dame, where she was elected as a member of the Board of Trustees in 2010.