Gamal Fahnbulleh

Why organisations work with Gamal Fahnbulleh

• A working news anchor on ITV Granada Reports and ITV National News bulletins, which means the room gets the real calibre of live interviewer, not a retired name lending their profile.
• Chairs major sector conferences on the record, including the Advertising Association’s LEAD North and the Great Northern Conference at Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield, which tells a booker he can hold a senior business audience.
• Comfortable across formats that most speakers are not: panel moderation, awards hosting, after-dinner remarks, keynote conversation, fireside Q and A, and virtual hybrid sessions.
• Brings a serious journalistic backbone to the hosting role: Manchester politics and international politics graduate, postgraduate broadcast journalism at City, an embed with the British Army in Afghanistan behind him, so the room trusts him on substantive subject matter.
• Recognised by his own industry for presenting craft: a 2021 Royal Television Society nomination for Best Regional Presenter, and a contributor to ITV Granada’s RTS North West Award for Best Regional Story in 2010.

Biography highlights

• Co-presenter of ITV Granada Reports for North West England and the Isle of Man, anchoring alongside Lucy Meacock since January 2021.
• Relief presenter on ITV National News bulletins, including News at Ten.
• Former Sky News anchor across Sky News Breakfast, Sky News Tonight and Sky News at Ten.
• Chair and host at the Advertising Association’s LEAD North conference and the Great Northern Conference 2021 at Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield.
• Nominated for Best Regional Presenter, Royal Television Society, 2021.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism, City, University of London; BA Honours in Politics and History and MA in International Politics, University of Manchester.

Biography

Most conference agendas collapse at the join between sessions. The keynote lands, the panel files on, and the conversation loses altitude because no one in the chair knows how to translate energy from one format into the next. That translation is the craft a working news anchor brings to a live room, and it is why senior booker teams at the Advertising Association’s LEAD North and the Great Northern Conference in Sheffield have handed Gamal Fahnbulleh the microphone.

He is a working journalist first. He co-presents ITV Granada Reports for the North West of England and the Isle of Man with Lucy Meacock, anchors relief shifts on ITV National News bulletins, and previously held anchor positions across Sky News Breakfast, Sky News Tonight and Sky News at Ten. His industry nominated him for Best Regional Presenter at the Royal Television Society Awards in 2021.

The journalistic authority is earned. He read Politics and History at the University of Manchester, added an MA in International Politics, and trained in broadcast journalism at City, University of London before winning one of ten places on the ITV News Group Bursary Scheme. He later embedded with the 1st Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment on a tour of Afghanistan, contributing to ITV Granada’s RTS North West Award for Best Regional Story in 2010.

For corporate clients, the practical value is simple. He can host an awards night, chair a panel of chief executives, conduct a fireside interview, and moderate a hybrid session without the room feeling a change in gear. He is booked for hosting craft, and he treats every brief as live television.

Key speaking topics

• Conference chairing and panel moderation
• Awards night and after-dinner hosting
• Fireside interviews with senior leaders
• Broadcast journalism and live news craft
• Reporting from conflict zones and embedded military journalism
• Regional economic and leadership conversations
• International affairs and global news context

Ideal for

• Annual conferences requiring a chair who can hold a senior executive audience for a full day.
• Awards ceremonies and gala dinners that need a host with live-broadcast pacing and on-camera presence.
• Panel events where CEOs, investors or public-sector leaders expect real questions rather than polite ones.
• Media, advertising and regional-growth conferences where journalistic credibility matters to the room.

Audience outcomes

• A tightly run agenda that stays on time across keynote, panel and audience-Q-and-A transitions.
• Sharper panel conversations, because the chair knows when to follow up and when to move on.
• Senior speakers drawn out on the specific points the audience came to hear, not the ones they rehearsed.
• A room that leaves feeling the event was serious, not stage-managed.