Chloe Tilley
Senior audiences walk out of most corporate panels knowing less than they should. Moderators stay safe and speakers stay on-message, so the hour produces polite consensus instead of useful disagreement. When the subject is political risk or a crisis unfolding in real time, that caution is expensive.
Chloe Tilley is a British broadcaster and two-time Sony Radio Academy Award winner who hosts conferences and moderates senior panels with the discipline of live news.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Chloe Tilley
- A moderator who treats the panel as journalism. Seven years anchoring World Have Your Say on BBC World Service gave her the instinct to push past rehearsed answers and surface what the audience actually came to hear.
- The poise of someone who has anchored live breaking news for two decades. She has fronted BBC coverage of Donald Trump’s inauguration, four UK General Elections, and two Royal weddings. When the agenda changes on stage, she does not lose the room.
- Corporate credibility earned in rooms that matter. Reuters, Twitter, Hitachi, and Bain have booked her to moderate panels and host conferences, and she understands the difference between a board-level audience and a public one.
- Two Sony Radio Academy Awards, one of them a Sony Gold for the BBC team’s live coverage of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding. Both rewarded the same thing: calm command of a broadcast moment with no second takes.
- The warmth that makes interviewees talk. Awards hosts usually manage a room; Chloe gets senior executives and honourees to say something worth remembering.
Biography highlights
- Two-time Sony Radio Academy Award winner, including a Sony Gold as part of the BBC presenting team covering the 2018 wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
- Co-presented the Times Radio Breakfast Show (Fridays to Sundays, four hours a day) with Calum Macdonald from 2022.
- Anchored World Have Your Say on BBC World News and BBC World Service for seven years from 2010, including a special edition with Bill Gates linking pupils in East London, Beijing, and Nairobi.
- Has presented Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4, regularly hosted the BAFTA-winning Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel, and presented 5 Live Drive and The Emma Barnett Show.
- Anchored BBC live coverage of Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, four UK General Elections, and two Royal weddings.
- Presenter for the inaugural BBC 100 Women series from 2013; corporate moderator for Reuters, Twitter, Hitachi, and Bain.
Biography
BBC World Service ran a daily debate programme called World Have Your Say for seven years. Chloe Tilley anchored it from 2010, including one special edition where Bill Gates took live questions from pupils in East London, Beijing, and Nairobi. She brings that approach to corporate stages, where the job is to get something useful out of the people on it.
The rest of her BBC career reads in the same register. She has anchored live coverage of Donald Trump’s inauguration, four UK General Elections, and two Royal weddings. The 2018 Sussex wedding earned the presenting team a Sony Gold, one of two Sony Radio Academy Awards she holds. She has presented Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 and hosted the BAFTA-winning Victoria Derbyshire programme from 2016. In 2022, she joined Times Radio as co-host of its weekend Breakfast Show.
Corporate clients want that discipline on their own stages. Reuters, Twitter, Hitachi, and Bain have booked her to moderate panels and host conferences where the agenda is live and the margin for error is narrow. In the BBC’s Radio Theatre, she has chaired policy debates on the future of China, the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war, and whether faith and feminism are compatible. The subjects change. The approach does not.
In 2013, she was part of the inaugural BBC 100 Women series, presenting cross-platform debates with influential women from around the world. The same curiosity is what corporate clients cite most often: she prepares like a journalist and gets the interview the room actually needed.
Key speaking topics
- Conference and event hosting
- Senior panel moderation
- Awards ceremony hosting
- UK politics and current affairs
- International affairs and geopolitical debate
- Broadcast media and long-form interviewing
- Corporate podcast hosting
Ideal for
- Corporate conferences and summits require a broadcast-quality host who can handle senior speakers, live audience Q&A, and last-minute agenda changes.
- Awards ceremonies, gala dinners, and recognition events where keeping time, tone, and momentum is the brief.
- Boardroom-level panel discussions on political risk, public policy, or international affairs, where the audience expects the moderator to know the subject.
- Corporate podcast series and long-form interview formats that need a host with editorial instinct and live-interview training.
Audience outcomes
- Panel answers that move beyond rehearsed positioning, because the moderator is willing to follow up.
- A session that ends when it ends, with time kept tight and transitions clean.
- Senior speakers who sound like themselves, because the interviewer has read what they have written and asks the questions the audience actually wanted to be asked.
- Post-event conversations that reference specific moments from the stage, not a generic summary of the day.