Lucrezia Millarini
Senior conferences live or die on the person at the front of the room. A weak chair lets panels drift, mishandles sensitive subject matter, and leaves the audience remembering the awkwardness rather than the argument. Boards investing in flagship events need a host who can hold a complex agenda, push speakers without bruising them, and make the room feel that the conversation is in safe hands.
Lucrezia Millarini is an ITV News anchor who chairs corporate conferences and moderates senior panels, bringing the discipline of live broadcast to the front of the room.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Lucrezia Millarini
- Fifteen years of live anchoring at ITV News, including the ITV News at Ten and the network’s breaking news announcement of the Duke of Edinburgh’s death, translates directly into composure on stage when a session goes off script.
- Background in law before journalism: a Bristol law degree and barrister training, useful when chairing panels on regulation, policy, or geopolitics, where the questioning needs to land precisely.
- Genuine breadth across hard news and softer territory. She has reported from the Grenfell inquiry coverage and co-hosted ITV’s Mental Health Special with Martin Lewis, so audiences trust her to handle difficult subject matter without slipping into either solemnity or gloss.
- Recognisable network face for UK audiences. Booking her signals to delegates that the event is serious enough to warrant a household-name anchor at the lectern.
Biography highlights
- Anchor, ITV News: ITV Lunchtime News, ITV Evening News and ITV News at Ten.
- Presenter, ITV London evening bulletin; regular reporter for ITV’s documentary series On Assignment.
- Reported on the RTS award-winning ITV coverage of the Grenfell Tower Fire.
- Co-host, The Martin Lewis Money Show: Live Mental Health Special and Mortgage Crisis Special.
- Law graduate, Bristol University; barrister training; postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism, City University, London.
- Patron, Dogs on the Street and Support Dogs; supporter of Alzheimer’s Society campaigns.
Biography
Live news anchoring is the closest analogue in television to chairing a senior conference. The host has a fixed window, a moving brief, contributors who may go long or off-piste, and an audience that expects clarity without theatrics. Lucrezia Millarini has done that work on ITV News for more than fifteen years, across the Lunchtime News, the Evening News and the News at Ten.
Her route in matters. She read law at Bristol and trained as a barrister before moving to journalism via a postgraduate diploma at City University. That legal grounding shows up in how she questions panellists on regulation, policy and geopolitics, where loose framing produces loose answers.
The range of stories she has handled on air is proof of the point for sensitive corporate sessions. She fronted ITV’s RTS award-winning coverage of the Grenfell Tower Fire, broke the news of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh in a special announcement in April 2021, and was part of ITV’s team at the Windsor wedding of Harry and Meghan. She has co-hosted ITV’s Mental Health Special with Martin Lewis, and reports for the network’s foreign affairs documentary strand, On Assignment.
Corporate clients book her for conference chairing, panel moderation and award hosting. The recurring feedback is composure on stage, warmth with contributors, and a refusal to let a panel meander. For organisations putting a flagship event in front of customers, regulators or the board, those are the variables that actually decide whether the day lands.
Key speaking topics
- Conference chairing and panel moderation
- Award ceremony and gala hosting
- Geopolitics and current affairs
- Mental health and wellbeing in the workplace
- Media, journalism and the modern newsroom
- Women in leadership and career conversations
Ideal for
- Boards and CEOs commissioning a flagship customer, investor or industry conference where the chair has to hold the room.
- CHROs and internal communications leads running town halls or all-hands sessions on sensitive topics, including mental health and restructuring.
- Awards organisers and gala hosts want a recognisable UK broadcast face at the lectern.
Audience outcomes
- A conference agenda that lands as a coherent argument rather than a sequence of unrelated talks.
- Panels in which the senior contributors are pushed on the points that matter without the session losing pace.
- Sessions on sensitive subjects, mental health, restructuring, and geopolitical risk, are handled with the steadiness audiences associate with live news.
- A day that delegates remember for the substance of the conversation, not for the moments that went wrong.