Reged Ahmad

Why organisations work with Reged Ahmad

• Two decades of live international news at the BBC and Guardian Australia, which means a panel chair who can run a difficult conversation on geopolitics or US politics without losing the room.
• Active editorial role as Host and Senior Producer of Guardian Australia’s Full Story podcast, so the questions she asks come from the same daily news cycle the audience is reading that morning.
• Experience anchoring BBC World News TV and BBC World Service Radio, including The Newsroom and the Global News Podcast, which translates directly into composure on a live stage with a corporate audience.
• Bilateral perspective on Australia, the UK and the United States, useful for events with leadership audiences spanning APAC, EMEA and North America.
• Voice over and event hosting practice that means scripted segments, sponsor reads and award announcements are handled to broadcast standard.

Biography highlights

• Host and Senior Producer, Full Story, Guardian Australia’s daily news podcast, with co-host Nour Haydar.
• Co-host, Decoding America, Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast, with Jonathan Yerushalmy.
• Former international news anchor, BBC World News TV.
• Former presenter, BBC World Service Radio, including The Newsroom and the Global News Podcast.
• Former presenter and senior producer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney.
• Bachelor of Media, Macquarie University, Sydney.

Biography

International news has rarely been harder to chair. A single panel on the global economy now has to take in US political volatility, sanctions exposure, supply chain decoupling and a media environment where every claim is contested. The skill that the room needs is editorial: the ability to keep a conversation moving while keeping it accurate.

That is the working day of a senior broadcast journalist. Reged Ahmad has spent twenty years inside it, first in Australian community radio, then at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney, and then in London at the BBC, where she anchored BBC World News TV and presented BBC World Service Radio programmes including The Newsroom and the Global News Podcast.

She now sits at Guardian Australia, where she is Host and Senior Producer of Full Story, the masthead’s daily news podcast, with co-host Nour Haydar. She also co-hosts Decoding America with Guardian Australia’s US site editor Jonathan Yerushalmy, a brief that keeps her close to US politics, polling and policy as they move.

For a corporate audience, the value is the chair, not the keynote. She is booked to host conferences, moderate executive panels and run Q and A on stage. The benefit is a conversation that holds together under live conditions: a journalist’s instinct for the next question, a presenter’s discipline on time, and a working knowledge of the global news cycle the audience cares about.

Key speaking topics

• International news and current affairs
• Geopolitics and world affairs
• US politics and policy
• Global economic trends and markets
• Conference hosting and event moderation
• Panel chairing and on-stage interviews
• Media, journalism and the public sphere

Ideal for

• Corporate conferences and leadership summits requiring a senior moderator across geopolitics, economics and US politics.
• Boards, executive committees and investor events running closed-door panels on global risk.
• Industry awards, gala dinners and brand events that need a broadcast-standard host.
• Communications, public affairs and ESG functions running stakeholder events with mixed media and policy audiences.

Audience outcomes

• A panel that stays on time, on topic and on the record, with sharper answers from senior speakers.
• A clean editorial through-line that an audience can recall and repeat after the session.
• Difficult or sensitive questions handled in a way that protects the speaker, the brand and the agenda.
• A live event that reads at broadcast standard for film crews, sponsors and internal communications teams.