Rosanna Lockwood
Boards and executive committees increasingly stage their highest-stakes conversations in public: investor days, COP delegations, Davos panels, regulator-facing summits. The risk is the same in every case. A weak chair lets the conversation drift, lets the senior figure on stage off the hook, and leaves the audience with no usable signal on policy, capital or strategy.
Rosanna Lockwood is an international news anchor and conference moderator who chairs senior business, finance and geopolitics conversations for boards, summits and investor audiences.
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Why organisations work with Rosanna Lockwood
- She has anchored live business news for CNBC International, MSNBC, NBC and Bloomberg TV, so she can chair a CFO, a central bank governor and a sanctions analyst in the same hour without losing the thread.
- Her brief is built where the audience expects it to be tested: Downing Street, the Singapore Strait, Istanbul, Dubai. That field record carries weight with senior delegates who can spot a host briefed only from a deck.
- She has moderated for COP, the World Economic Forum and LEAP, formats where the chair has to manage geopolitical sensitivity and named-company exposure in real time.
- She holds her own opposite Nobel laureates, central bank governors and CEOs without ceding the room, which is the actual job when the panel includes a sitting minister and a sceptical buy-side audience.
Biography highlights
- Anchor on CNBC International, presenting Squawk Box and Street Signs from London and Singapore, with European markets reporting for CNBC US, MSNBC and NBC.
- Host of Prime Time with Rosanna Lockwood on TalkTV, and Piers Morgan’s stand-in on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
- Earlier broadcasting roles with Bloomberg TV, Reuters in Dubai, the BBC, LBC and ITN.
- Moderator at COP, the World Economic Forum and LEAP, plus conferences and summits in London, Paris, New York, Cairo, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Singapore.
- BJTC-accredited Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism, London College of Communication; BA English Literature and Drama, Royal Holloway, University of London.
- Senior Fellow of the John Schofield Trust, mentoring early-career journalists.
Biography
Live business news is unforgiving territory. The anchor has minutes, sometimes seconds, to read a central bank statement, frame the implication for markets and put the right question to the next guest. Lockwood spent over a decade in that seat, anchoring Squawk Box and Street Signs for CNBC International in London and Singapore and reporting European markets for CNBC US, MSNBC and NBC.
That work shaped a specific kind of moderator. She is fluent in the vocabulary of monetary policy, corporate strategy and geopolitical risk because she has had to translate it on air, in real time, with a Nobel laureate, a CEO or a finance minister opposite her. Earlier roles at Bloomberg TV, Reuters in Dubai, the BBC, LBC and ITN extended that range across foreign policy, defence, sustainability and energy.
The conference work follows the same logic. Lockwood has chaired and moderated for COP, the World Economic Forum and LEAP, and across summits in London, Paris, New York, Cairo, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Singapore. The brief in those rooms is concrete: keep a senior panel honest, surface the disagreement that matters, and leave the buy-side or board audience with a signal they can act on.
She qualified through a BJTC-accredited Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at London College of Communication, after a BA in English Literature and Drama at Royal Holloway. As a Senior Fellow of the John Schofield Trust, she mentors early-career journalists in the UK.
Key speaking topics
- Conference moderation and panel chairing
- Investor day and AGM hosting
- Business and finance interviewing
- Geopolitics and foreign policy
- Sustainability and energy transition
- Macroeconomics and central bank policy
- Defence and security
Ideal for
- Boards, IR teams and CFO offices commissioning chairs for capital markets days, AGMs and investor summits
- Sustainability, public affairs and ESG leads convening regulator-facing or COP-adjacent conversations
- Heads of communications and event leads at banks, asset managers and energy companies running flagship summits
- Government and multilateral programme leads at WEF, COP and LEAP-tier convenings
Audience outcomes
- Senior speakers handled with the discipline of a live news desk, including the unscripted moments
- Sharper questions in the room, including the ones panellists would prefer to skip
- A chair who can connect a macro print, a corporate decision and a policy shift inside a single panel
- Confidence that sensitive geopolitical territory will be navigated without diplomatic damage
- A through-line for the audience, so the day reads as one argument rather than a sequence of sessions