Juliet Mann
A board panel, a CEO interview or an awards ceremony lives or dies on the person holding the room. Get the host wrong and the agenda drifts, executives over-talk, audiences disengage, and a serious programme reads as corporate filler. The cost of that is rarely budgeted for, but it shows up in every post-event survey.
Juliet Mann is a broadcast anchor and conference host who keeps high-stakes business and current affairs conversations on the agenda, on time, and on the substance the audience came to hear.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Juliet Mann
- Two decades anchoring live business news on CNN, CNBC, Sky News, Reuters, TRT World and CGTN Europe, which means she can chair a senior panel without rehearsal scaffolding and recover any conversation that starts to slide.
- A working interviewer’s instinct built on direct exchanges with EU policymakers, with CEOs at Nestle, L’Oreal, Geox and Lafarge, and with figures including Sir James Dyson and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
- Comfortable across the editorial range a serious corporate programme actually demands: macroeconomics, geopolitics, sustainability, digital and entrepreneurship, rather than a single specialism that limits the brief.
- Current host of CGTN Europe’s The Agenda, a weekly current affairs talk show, which keeps her in daily practice with the format most conferences are trying to emulate on stage.
- Bilingual in English and French, which matters for pan-European audiences, multinational client events and continental press engagements.
Biography highlights
- Host of The Agenda, CGTN Europe’s weekly current affairs talk show.
- Former anchor and correspondent for CNN’s Marketplace Europe, the network’s weekly European business programme.
- Newsroom postings with CNBC, Sky News, TRT World and Reuters in London, Paris, New York and Frankfurt.
- Interview credits include Sir James Dyson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (for the BBC), David Beckham (during London’s successful 2012 Olympic bid), and CEOs of Nestle, L’Oreal, Geox and Lafarge.
- Corporate broadcast credits with EY TV and HSBC TV; podcast A Week in my Flexible Working Life; freelance features for The Daily Telegraph and Economia.
- Politics degree, University of Bristol; works in English and French.
Biography
Live business television is the most exposed form of moderation there is. The anchor has to read an executive in real time, hold a line through interruptions, and translate a balance sheet, a geopolitical risk and a customer story into one coherent conversation, on air, with no edit. That is the practice Juliet Mann has been in for more than two decades.
She has anchored from the London, Paris, New York and Frankfurt newsrooms of CNBC, CNN, Sky News, TRT World and Reuters. At CNN’s Marketplace Europe she sat opposite EU policymakers and the chief executives of Nestle, L’Oreal, Geox and Lafarge. At Sky News she interviewed David Beckham the morning London won the 2012 Olympics and rode the last transatlantic Concorde. For the BBC she interviewed Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Today she hosts The Agenda, CGTN Europe’s weekly current affairs programme, where the brief is to take a single international story, build a panel around it and keep the conversation tight enough to publish.
That is the working repertoire she brings to the corporate stage: chairing a CEO interview, moderating a board-level panel on growth or sustainability, anchoring an awards ceremony, hosting a Brussels policy roundtable. She works in English and French. She prepares like a journalist, not like a host-for-hire, which is the difference clients notice in the room.
Key speaking topics
- Conference hosting and moderation
- Executive interviews and on-stage CEO conversations
- Awards ceremonies and corporate compering
- Panel moderation on business, sustainability and entrepreneurship
- European policy and EU-facing discussion forums
- Bilingual English and French event hosting
Ideal for
- Corporate conferences, AGMs and customer summits that need an experienced live business anchor in the chair.
- Awards ceremonies and gala dinners where presence and pace decide the evening.
- Board-level panels and CEO fireside formats on sustainability, growth, geopolitics or digital.
- Pan-European events and Brussels policy forums requiring bilingual English and French hosting.
Audience outcomes
- A programme that runs to time and lands its key messages.
- Executive interviews that produce substantive, quotable answers rather than rehearsed lines.
- Panels that stay on the topic the audience came to hear, with each contributor properly drawn in.
- A professional broadcast register on stage, suitable for filmed content and post-event clips.