She graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 2001 with a degree in geography, where she won the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize for journalism.

Later as an assistant producer she worked on a wide range of live sporting events, including the Cricket World Cup and US Open.

[3] Davies was also a regular presenter of the BBC Sport's Your News,[2] travelling around the country to a different location every week, telling viewers' stories.

She has fronted CNN's coverage of all the major international sports events since joining, including the Olympics in London 2012, Sochi 2014, Rio 2016 and Pyeongchang 2018; the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, 2016 European Championships in France and the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

On 30 January 2012, it was announced that she had become the patron of the Milk Bank at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, where Molly was born 9 weeks early.