Prior to joining CNN in 2018, he was a producer and then a correspondent with ABC News for 20 years.
[1][2][3] Watt has won two Emmy Awards, one for his reporting from Fallujah, Iraq in 2004,[4] and another as a producer for work in Darfur, Sudan.
He has a master's degree in Modern History from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland with a focus on post-war U.S. foreign policy.
[7][8] Watt started at ABC's London bureau in 1997 as a desk assistant and tape librarian.
He spent 15 years based in London covering stories across the world, including wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Liberia along with the odd royal wedding.