A regular contributor to World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Mora has also reported for most other ABC News broadcasts, including Good Morning America, 20/20 and Nightline. A national Emmy Award nominee, Mora has reported from a dozen countries on four continents, covering many of the major stories of the past few years. Among them: Bob Dole's presidential campaign, the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials, the Pope's visit to Cuba, Operation Desert Thunder, the funeral of Princess Diana, the trial of au pair Louise Woodward, and the Midwest floods of 1997.

Mora has also served as a substitute anchor on the weekend edition of World News Tonight. He frequently anchors Good Morning America's news segments and he has often anchored ABCNEWS' live coverage of breaking news events, including the Olympic bombing in Atlanta, the death of Princess Diana and the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.

Mora has interviewed a number world leaders, including Margaret Thatcher and President Clinton, as well as a wide-range of other world figures, from Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams to opera great Placido Domingo and author and diplomat Carlos Fuentes.

Prior to becoming an ABC News correspondent, Mora had been the co-host of ABC News Good Morning America Sunday beginning in March 1994.

In that capacity, he appeared as a regular contributor to ABC News Good Morning America, and served as a frequent guest co-host on GMA. Prior to joining GMA/Sunday, he was the co-host of Good Day L.A. on Fox Television's KTTV in Los Angeles. While there he covered the Los Angeles earthquake, the Laguna and Malibu fires and the civil rights trial of the officers involved in the Rodney King beating.

Prior to his arrival in Los Angeles, Mora was a reporter and anchor for WTVJ-TV, the NBC affiliate in Miami, from December 1992, to May 1993. For most of 1992, he served as an anchor for NBC Nightside, NBC's national overnight newscast.

Mora, who also is fluent in Spanish, began his career in broadcasting as a sports anchor and producer, from January, 1991, to December 1992, for Telemundo's WNJU-TV, and from May to December 1990, for Univision's WXTV, both on their evening news programs. He also served as one of the original announcers on ESPN's international transmissions to South America between September 1991, and January 1992.

A native of Havana, Cuba, Mora began his career as a corporate lawyer for Debevoise & Plimpton in New York, in August 1981, specializing in international transactions and unsecured and secured private placements of debt.

Mora received an L.L.M. from Harvard Law School in 1981 and a J.D., summa cum laude, from the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela in 1980.

Mr. Mora, his wife, Julie, and their daughter Clara reside in Manhattan.

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