Shiulie Ghosh
Boards spend heavily on summits, internal town halls, and public forums where the room is full of senior leaders, ministers, NGO heads, and customers, and the day succeeds or fails on how the conversation is run. A weak chair flattens the panel into platitudes. A strong one extracts the disagreement, keeps the timing tight, and sends people out with a clearer view of what was actually said.
Shiulie Ghosh is a broadcast journalist and conference moderator who chairs high-stakes panels and global summits for the WHO, the UN, and Fortune-listed corporates, drawing on more than twenty years anchoring live news at the BBC, ITV, and Al Jazeera English.
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Why organisations work with Shiulie Ghosh
- A live news anchor’s instincts on stage. Two decades fronting breaking coverage at the BBC, ITV, and Al Jazeera English means she handles a panel that has gone off-script the way she handled a rolling news studio.
- A working subject base in the topics global summits actually convene around: health, climate, sustainable development, food systems, and humanitarian affairs. She is not learning the brief on the train.
- Trusted repeatedly by the World Health Organization and UN bodies, including chair roles at the World Health Assembly, the World Heart Summit, and the UN World Investment Forum.
- A track record reporting from inside the stories that shape the room, from Kosovo and the Asian Tsunami through the Arab Spring, the killing of Bin Laden, and the death of Nelson Mandela. That experience reads in how she handles serious subject matter on stage.
Biography highlights
- Launch anchor for Al Jazeera English when the channel went on air from Doha on 15 November 2006, then a senior anchor for the international channel until the end of 2015.
- Former Home Affairs Editor at ITV News and a former BBC News journalist, with a career in network television news that began as a BBC News trainee in 1990.
- Currently a presenter at TRT World’s London bureau and director of her own UK media services company, Aero Productions Ltd.
- Named Best Television News Journalist at the BT Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards in 2001, and won the Association of International Broadcasting’s Editor’s Choice Media Excellence Award for hosting Every Woman.
- Chair of high-level panels at the World Health Assembly, the World Heart Summit, and the UN World Investment Forum, with regular moderating work for WHO and UN agencies.
- Author of the Daughter of Kali urban fantasy trilogy, Kingdom of Salt, Mark of the Djinn, and Realm of Sirens, all published since 2018.
Biography
The hardest job at most senior summits is not being on the panel. It is running the panel. Whoever holds the chair decides whether four prepared statements turn into an actual exchange, whether a minister gets pressed or politely deferred to, and whether the audience leaves with a sharper view of the issue or a vaguer one. Ghosh has spent more than two decades inside that craft.
She came up through British network television news. A BBC News trainee in 1990, then eight years at the BBC, then ITV News from 1998, where she rose to Senior Correspondent and Home Affairs Editor. In 2006 she became one of the launch anchors of Al Jazeera English, opening the channel’s broadcast from Doha and remaining a senior anchor until late 2015. Today she anchors at TRT World’s London bureau and runs her own media services company, Aero Productions, in Buckinghamshire.
The work that takes her on stage now is moderation. She chairs panels at the World Health Assembly, the World Heart Summit, and the UN World Investment Forum, and works regularly with WHO and UN agencies on debates covering global health, climate, sustainable development, food systems, and humanitarian affairs. The reporting CV is part of why those organisations book her: she has filed from Kosovo, from the Asian Tsunami, from the Arab Spring, on the killing of Bin Laden, on the death of Nelson Mandela.
Recognition has come from inside the industry. She was named Best Television News Journalist at the BT Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards in 2001 and picked up the Association of International Broadcasting’s Editor’s Choice Media Excellence Award for Every Woman, a series on women’s issues worldwide. Outside the studio she is also a published novelist, with the Daughter of Kali urban fantasy trilogy, Kingdom of Salt, Mark of the Djinn, and Realm of Sirens all in print since 2018.
Key speaking topics
- Conference moderation and panel chairing
- Global health and the World Health Assembly agenda
- Climate, sustainability, and energy transition convening
- Humanitarian affairs and international development
- Food systems and food security
- Diversity in international broadcasting
Ideal for
- CEOs, communications directors, and event leads commissioning a chair for an annual conference, AGM, or investor day
- Heads of public affairs at NGOs, multilaterals, and global health bodies running ministerial panels or donor convenings
- Sustainability and ESG leads running summits on climate, energy transition, or food systems
- Internal communications teams running senior leadership town halls or all-hands events that need a credible external host
Audience outcomes
- A panel that produces actual exchange between speakers, not four parallel statements
- Tight stage timing across complex multi-stakeholder agendas, including ministerial slots
- Subject-literate questioning on health, climate, energy, and humanitarian topics, without primer-level explanation from the room
- A room that leaves with a clearer sense of where the speakers actually agreed and disagreed