Lizzy Burden
Boardroom conversations about the economy, monetary policy and political risk now sit at the centre of strategy, not at the edge of it. Most senior audiences want a host who can put a Chancellor, a central banker and a chief executive in the same conversation and get straight, useful answers. The scarce skill is the journalist who can do that without flattening the substance.
Lizzy Burden is Bloomberg TV’s UK Correspondent and a moderator who keeps senior audiences close to the economic, political and policy stories shaping the year ahead.
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Why organisations work with Lizzy Burden
- She anchors Bloomberg’s Daybreak Europe across television and radio, which means she walks into a room already briefed on the morning’s market-moving stories rather than the previous week’s headlines.
- She has interviewed the UK Chancellor, Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary, Shadow Chancellor, FTSE 100 chief executives, Nobel laureate economists and Bank of England policymakers, so she is comfortable pressing senior figures without losing the room.
- She has hosted at the CBI annual conference, Chatham House, Founders Forum, the Tbilisi Silk Road Forum, and the Conservative and Labour Party conferences, which is the working ground of corporate and policy audiences.
- As a non-executive director of Creative Access, she brings genuine governance experience on diversity in the creative industries, not a topic talk borrowed for the occasion.
- She also writes the Readout newsletter and hosts the Bloomberg UK Politics Podcast, so the same voice clients book on stage is already in their feed.
Biography highlights
- UK Correspondent, Bloomberg TV; anchor of Daybreak Europe on Bloomberg TV and Bloomberg Radio.
- Host of the daily Bloomberg UK Politics Podcast and author of the Readout newsletter.
- Named one of MHP’s 30 Journalists to Watch.
- Non-executive director, Creative Access, appointed November 2023.
- Previously economics writer at The Telegraph and Bloomberg News; earlier graduate trainee at The Times.
- History graduate, University of Cambridge.
Biography
Bloomberg’s Daybreak Europe goes on air before most of the City has reached its desk, and the job of the anchor is to set the day’s agenda for European investors in the hour the markets need it most. That is the platform Lizzy Burden runs. She is Bloomberg TV’s UK Correspondent, the host of the television and radio editions of Daybreak Europe, the host of the daily Bloomberg UK Politics Podcast, and the writer of the Readout newsletter.
The reporting record is what gives her the authority to host senior corporate and political audiences. She has interviewed the UK Chancellor, Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and Shadow Chancellor, FTSE 100 chief executives, Nobel laureate economists and Bank of England policymakers, and has filed from Downing Street, Buckingham Palace, the Bank of England and the Elysee Palace on monetary policy decisions, multiple prime ministerial transitions, the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, Brexit, the US-China trade war and the war in Ukraine.
Her event work sits squarely inside that beat. She has hosted at the CBI annual conference, Chatham House, Founders Forum, the Tbilisi Silk Road Forum and the Conservative and Labour Party conferences, the venues where senior business and policy audiences gather. She came to Bloomberg via The Times graduate scheme and economics writing roles at The Telegraph and Bloomberg News, after reading history at the University of Cambridge.
Outside the studio, she serves as a non-executive director at Creative Access, the organisation that works to widen representation in the creative industries. MHP has named her one of its 30 Journalists to Watch.
Key speaking topics
- UK politics and Westminster
- Monetary policy and the Bank of England
- Global economic outlook
- Geopolitics and political risk
- Conference hosting and on-stage interviews
- Diversity in the creative industries
- Media and journalism
Ideal for
- Corporate conferences and AGMs that need a credible host across politics, markets and macro-economics.
- Boards, leadership offsites and investor events that want a Bloomberg-grade interviewer for sessions with senior policymakers or chief executives.
- Industry summits and policy forums seeking a moderator who can run plenary panels and one-to-one stage interviews.
- DEI-focused convenings looking for a working journalist with board-level governance experience on representation.
Audience outcomes
- A clear read of the UK political and economic stories most likely to shape the next twelve months, drawn from Bloomberg’s daily output.
- Sharper sessions on stage, because she briefs hard and presses guests on the questions the audience came to hear answered.
- A working sense of how monetary policy, Westminster decisions and global political risk connect to corporate strategy.
- A rare combination of macro-economic fluency and lived experience of widening representation in a creative industry.