Melissa Gecolea

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Honorary Lecturer
mgecolea@hku.hk

Melissa Gecolea has more than 25 years of experience as a broadcast journalist. She has worked in the Philippines, Hong Kong and London covering politics, technology and business. She currently works at Hong Kong broadcaster TVB Pearl as an anchor for the evening news and hosts the weekly show Pearl Magazine where she is also senior supervising producer.  

Melissa started as a TV presenter and daily news reporter covering defense at GMA-7 in the Philippines. She later worked as a producer for the award-winning investigative show Assignment on the Philippines’ TV network ABS-CBN. 

She also worked on several shows at ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC), including the science and technology show Future Perfect as executive producer, as well as co-host and producer of the award- winning personal finance show On the Money before moving to Hong Kong to take a job with TVB in 2014. 

Melissa grew up in the United States, Italy and Thailand.