Andrea Catherwood is international news correspondent for ITV News and presents the ITV Weekend News.

Andrea rejoined the ITV newsroom from Channel 5 News where she had spent 2000 as presenter of the 6pm flagship 5 News programme.

She has also stood in for Dermot Murnaghan presenting the Nightly News and occasionally co-presenting the ITV Lunchtime News and weekend programming.

Andrea was previously Medical Correspondent in the ITV newsroom, after spending a year as one of ITV News' Senior Reporters working on special reports for News at Ten.

In 1999 Andrea reported from the Albanian border on the plight of the refugees who had fled the war in Kosovo and on the investigations by human rights organisations into harrowing stories of rape by Serb soldiers. She also reported on the IRA bomb in Omagh.

Andrea joined ITV News in April 1998, starting as newscaster/senior reporter presenting the Early Morning News and doing special reports for News at Ten.

Prior to joining ITV News, she had worked for NBC Asia (NBC's business news network for the Asia Pacific region) in Hong Kong which she joined in 1993 as a news reporter.

She subsequently became one of their main news presenters, anchoring coverage of special events including the handover of Hong Kong to China and the 1997 stock market turmoil. Andrea travelled extensively throughout Asia, and in Burma interviewed Aung San Sui Kyi.

Her broadcasting career began in 1985 when, at the age of 16, she joined the BBC in Belfast as a co-presenter of a youth current affairs programme for which she won BBC Northern Ireland's Young Presenter of the Year award.

The following year she co-presented the youth current affairs programme Up Front.

At the age of 18 Andrea made a documentary for Radio 4 about the 18 years of 'troubles' in Northern Ireland, and in 1990 she joined UTV (Ulster Television) where she spent three years as a news and features reporter.

Andrea was born and raised in Belfast and has a degree in law from the University of Manchester.