Katie Pilbeam

Senior conferences live or die on the host. A panel of bank CEOs, central bankers and geopolitical analysts will not self-organise into a coherent hour; someone has to hold the room, follow the money in real time, and ask the question the audience came to hear. Most rosters of available moderators thin out fast when the brief involves live financial markets, sanctions, or a head of state in the green room.

Katie Pilbeam is a broadcast news anchor and conference host who moderates senior financial and geopolitical conversations, drawing on a decade of live business and breaking news presenting for Reuters TV, RT, TRT World and the London Stock Exchange.

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Why organisations work with Katie Pilbeam

  • She has anchored live financial television, including a weekly business programme she produced herself, which means she can carry a market-facing conversation without an earpiece feeding her the next question.
  • She has interviewed Christine Lagarde, Steve Wozniak, Boris Johnson and Sadiq Khan on camera. The standard for senior-stage moderation is set by that calibre of guest.
  • Twelve editions of the Geneva Forex Events and recurring London Stock Exchange conferences mean buyers are hiring a known quantity in the trading and capital-markets circuit, not a generalist host.
  • NCTJ-trained, with rolling news experience on the Israel-Hamas conflict, the Ukraine-Russia war and the 2023 NATO summit, so a geopolitical brief does not need to be simplified to fit her.

Biography highlights

  • Main news anchor for RT in Moscow for four years, including her own weekly business programme Venture Capital.
  • News and business presenter credits at Reuters TV, TRT World, TalkTV, IG Markets, London Live News and Proactive Investors.
  • Earlier business-presenting roles at Dukascopy TV in Geneva and IG Trading Group in London.
  • Feature reporting from the World Economic Forum in Davos, the St Petersburg Economic Forum, the Shanghai Financial Forum and the Sochi Winter Olympics.
  • Anchored rolling coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict, the Ukraine-Russia war, the Wagner rebellion and the 2023 NATO summit in Vilnius.
  • NCTJ-qualified journalist, English Literature graduate of the University of Southampton.

Biography

A finance summit at the London Stock Exchange or a forex conference in Geneva does not need a celebrity host. It needs someone who can read a Bloomberg ticker on camera, follow a central banker into the detail, and run a panel of traders without losing the audience in the back row. That has been Katie Pilbeam’s working brief for more than a decade.

She trained as an NCTJ-qualified print journalist before moving into financial television, first at Dukascopy TV in Geneva and IG Trading Group in London. Four years as a main anchor for RT in Moscow followed, where she produced and presented her own weekly business programme, Venture Capital, alongside long shifts on rolling news.

The on-air catalogue since has been heavily geopolitical and market-facing: Reuters TV, TRT World, TalkTV, IG Markets, Proactive Investors, and feature shows from Davos, the St Petersburg Economic Forum and the Shanghai Financial Forum. She has anchored rolling coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict, the Ukraine-Russia war, the Wagner group rebellion and the 2023 NATO summit in Vilnius.

The interview list is the cleanest proof point: Christine Lagarde, Steve Wozniak, Boris Johnson, Sadiq Khan, Donald Trump. Conference buyers are hiring the same instinct that produces those exchanges live, applied to their CEO, their regulator, or their keynote guest.

Key speaking topics

  • Conference moderation and panel hosting
  • Financial markets and trading
  • Global business news
  • Geopolitics and international affairs
  • Awards and gala hosting
  • Live event anchoring

Ideal for

  • Banks, asset managers and exchanges running flagship client conferences
  • Financial services firms hosting trading, forex or capital-markets events
  • Corporate communications teams running CEO interviews, AGMs or investor days
  • Conference organisers in geopolitics, foreign policy and international business

Audience outcomes

  • A senior panel that stays on its strongest material instead of drifting into platitudes
  • Live interviews with principals that produce usable broadcast and social clips
  • A host who can absorb a last-minute change of running order, guest or news event without breaking the room
  • A market-fluent moderator who can press a CFO or central banker on substance, not just on tone

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Katie was a member of London Live's senior reporting and presenting team, covering some of London's biggest stories and anchoring the channel's main news programmes. She was a hugely reliable, resilient and respected member of the team, always professional and consistently performed at a high level.
Anthony Baxter
Head of News, London Live
Katie is not only fun to work with but has a great ability to make the job look easy - which means she really works hard. Professional presentation with personality, that's Katie.
Bill Dod
Senior Presenter, RT
Katie is an extremely passionate TV presenter and reporter, who is equally at home moderating panels. She has presented financial as well as general news, and shows a true understanding of each and every subject.
Sara Walker
Head of TV, IG Trading Group