Angela Barnes

Why organisations work with Angela Barnes

• She is a sitting business editor, not a retired one. The Euronews remit means she walks into a room with the same week’s markets, policy and corporate stories already loaded.
• The Big Question is a CEO-interview franchise she writes and presents every week. Boards hiring her for a fireside or on-stage interview are hiring a format she runs as a day job.
• Her reporting reach spans Sky News, CNBC (including East Tech West), ITV, Yahoo Finance and The Telegraph, which gives her fluency across markets, technology and energy without a single-sector tell.
• She has moderated for the IMF and the Paris Finance Forum, so the step up to finance-ministry-level panels does not require coaching.
• The technology background from Sky Swipe and CNBC East Tech West means a tech-and-AI panel does not need a separate host.

Biography highlights

• Managing Editor of Business, Euronews, Brussels
• Anchor and interviewer, The Big Question, Euronews
• Over a decade at Sky News as producer, reporter and presenter, including the Swipe technology show
• Contributor credits at CNBC (East Tech West), ITV, IG, Yahoo Finance and The Telegraph
• Moderator credits include the IMF and the Paris Finance Forum
• Described by Ireland’s Better Business magazine as “one of Europe’s most prominent news figures”

Biography

The Big Question goes out weekly on Euronews. Angela Barnes writes it, produces the conversation and puts the questions to a rolling cast of chief executives, ministers and investors. That is the core of her working life, and it is why she is in demand on stage.

Barnes runs business, markets and economics for Euronews from Brussels, which puts her inside the policy bloodstream of the European Union and within a short flight of the financial centres her audience trades in. Before Euronews she spent more than a decade at Sky News as a producer, reporter and presenter, including on the Swipe technology programme, and has contributed to CNBC’s East Tech West, ITV, IG, Yahoo Finance and The Telegraph.

As a moderator she has worked with the IMF and the Paris Finance Forum, which means the vocabulary of sovereign balance sheets, energy transition finance and central-bank communication is already familiar. Ireland’s Better Business magazine called her “one of Europe’s most prominent news figures.”

The practical point for a board hiring a host: the person on stage has done the interview that morning, on camera, with someone senior, and will do another one next week. That keeps the questions current and the pace sharp.

Key speaking topics

• Global markets and the macro picture
• Energy markets and the energy transition
• European economic and political risk
• Technology, AI and the platform economy
• Central bank policy and financial stability
• Corporate strategy and CEO accountability
• Business journalism and media strategy

Ideal for

• Annual conferences and investor days needing a moderator who can interview a CEO and a finance minister in the same programme
• Financial services, energy and technology clients hosting C-suite and board-level forums
• Public-sector and multilateral convenings on economic policy, trade and transition finance

Audience outcomes

• A panel or fireside that stays on point because the host has read the file and the morning’s news
• Senior guests stretched on the questions that matter, without hostility, so the audience learns something new
• A running thread between sessions that ties markets, policy and technology into one narrative for the day
• A tighter run of show, because a working editor manages time on air for a living