Maryam Moshiri
Senior leaders increasingly stage their highest-stakes conversations on stage: investor days, ministerial panels, all-hands moments, awards nights. The person at the front shapes whether those conversations land or stall. Most events fail not because the content is weak but because the chair cannot pace a room, press a guest, or hold a live audience when the script slips.
Maryam Moshiri is a BBC Chief Presenter who hosts, chairs and moderates high-stakes corporate and policy events with the discipline of a live international newsroom.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Maryam Moshiri
- She runs a room the way she runs a live bulletin: tight cues, sharp follow-ups, and the composure to absorb a technical fault or an off-script answer without the audience noticing.
- Sixteen years on BBC business programmes means she can hold her own with a CFO, a regulator or an aviation chief, and ask the second question that other moderators miss.
- As anchor of The World Today, she works daily across geopolitics, markets and policy, so she arrives briefed on the macro context a board audience already has in mind.
- She is interview-trained on senior business figures including Jeff Bezos, Reed Hastings and Willie Walsh, which translates directly into chairing fireside sessions with the C-suite.
- Her register sits between BBC news authority and conversational warmth, which travels well across investor audiences, ministerial panels and internal leadership events.
Biography highlights
- Chief Presenter, BBC News channel; one of five Chief Presenters appointed in 2023 to anchor the merged UK and international service.
- Lead presenter, The World Today with Maryam Moshiri, the BBC’s flagship international news programme since February 2024.
- Sixteen years as Lead Business Presenter on BBC News across World Business Report, Talking Business and Business Briefing.
- Royal Television Society nominee, Best News Presenter, 2017.
- BA Italian, University College London; postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism, London College of Communication.
- Has interviewed Jeff Bezos, Reed Hastings and Willie Walsh, and reported live across the 2008 financial crisis, Brexit and the pandemic.
Biography
The hardest moment in any corporate event is the unscripted one: a guest goes off message, a feed cuts, a minister gives a non-answer. Maryam Moshiri spends her working life in that moment. As a Chief Presenter on the BBC News channel, she anchors live international news for hours at a time, and the discipline she brings on stage is the same discipline a live gallery demands.
Moshiri spent sixteen years as Lead Business Presenter on BBC News, fronting World Business Report, Talking Business and Business Briefing. She covered the economic aftermath of 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis and the pandemic, and interviewed business figures including Jeff Bezos, Reed Hastings and Willie Walsh. That track record is what gives her credibility with finance, aviation and policy audiences.
In February 2023 she was named one of five BBC Chief Presenters chosen to launch the corporation’s merged UK and international news channel. A year later she became the lead anchor of The World Today, the BBC’s flagship international evening programme, working daily across geopolitics, markets and culture.
For corporate clients, the value is practical. She has chaired ministerial panels, C-suite summits and awards stages. She prepares like a journalist, not a host: research the brief, find the second question, give the audience a reason to stay in the room.
Key speaking topics
- Conference and event hosting
- Panel moderation
- Awards nights and gala hosting
- Fireside interviews with senior leaders
- Internal leadership and town hall facilitation
- Business and economics commentary
- Geopolitics and international affairs
- Media training and on-camera coaching
Ideal for
- Annual conferences, investor days and customer summits that need a chair who can hold a senior business audience.
- Awards ceremonies and gala dinners that want a recognised broadcaster on the main stage.
- Ministerial or policy panels that benefit from a journalist who can press, time and balance the room.
- Internal leadership events, town halls and CEO fireside formats.
Audience outcomes
- A live event paced and controlled to the standard of a BBC bulletin.
- Senior guests interviewed past their talking points, with the room learning something new.
- Panels that move, with airtime distributed across speakers rather than dominated by one voice.
- Awards stages held together cleanly across hours of running order.
- A house-style of credibility that travels across business, policy and culture audiences.