Spriha Srivastava

Why organisations work with Spriha Srivastava

• She holds a senior editorial role at one of the largest international business news brands, which gives her direct fluency in how leaders are being asked questions in public, not just how they want to answer them.
• She has moderated on inclusion, AI and workforce equity at the World Economic Forum, VivaTech, the Milken Institute and the Global Women Leaders Summit, with the discipline of someone who interviews CEOs for a living.
• Her career covers the full arc of recent business stories that audiences remember: the financial crisis aftermath, Brexit, U.S. elections, the Trump presidency and the pandemic economy.
• She brings a recognised platform on women in leadership, with the Women Economic Forum “Iconic Women” award and an Asian Women of Achievement shortlist behind her.
• She is one of the few moderators who can sit on a panel about generative AI and a panel about inclusion in the same week, and not flatten either conversation.

Biography highlights

• Vice President and Executive Editor, Digital, CNBC International (appointed February 2025), with editorial responsibility across Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.
• Former London Bureau Chief and International Executive Editor at Insider, leading UK and Singapore newsrooms.
• Former Deputy Digital News Editor at CNBC International London, with prior roles at Financial Times Money Management and Thomson Reuters Global Markets Forum.
• Winner, Women Economic Forum “Iconic Women Creating A Better Tomorrow” (2020); shortlisted, Asian Women of Achievement Award, media (2020); runner-up, Santander Media Awards newcomer (2015).
• Speaker and moderator at the Milken Institute, Global Women Leaders Summit, and inclusion-focused programmes at World Economic Forum and VivaTech.
• Over 15 years in international business journalism, with field reporting and coverage across more than 40 countries.

Biography

The credibility problem in public conversations about inclusion is not a shortage of advocates. It is a shortage of people who can hold a senior business audience in a real conversation about workforce equity without losing the room to either platitudes or defensiveness. That is editorial work as much as it is advocacy.

That is the role Spriha Srivastava plays. As Vice President and Executive Editor, Digital at CNBC International, appointed in February 2025, she leads digital news teams across Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. Before CNBC she was London Bureau Chief and International Executive Editor at Insider, running newsrooms in the UK and Singapore.

Her reporting career has tracked the stories that have set the operating context for most of today’s senior leaders: the aftermath of the financial crisis, Brexit, two U.S. election cycles, the Trump presidency, and the pandemic economy. That range, plus prior posts at Financial Times Money Management and Thomson Reuters, is what gives her moderation work a different texture from a topical advocate’s. She comes at inclusion and future-of-work questions through the same lens she uses on a CEO interview.

The Women Economic Forum “Iconic Women” award and her Asian Women of Achievement shortlisting are the public markers, but the practical value is more specific. Audiences get a moderator who can move from generative AI strategy to workforce equity to global markets within a single programme, with the journalistic instinct for when a panellist has not actually answered the question.

Key speaking topics

• Women in leadership
• Diversity, equity and inclusion in practice
• Future of work and future skills
• Inclusive innovation and AI
• Global markets and the macro context for business decisions
• Panel moderation and event hosting on business and policy themes

Ideal for

• CHROs and Chief People Officers commissioning serious conversations on inclusion and workforce equity
• Boards and ExCos hosting external moderators for global summits, inclusion forums and leadership offsites
• Conference programme owners needing a moderator who can carry both AI and inclusion strands
• Internal women-in-leadership networks and ERGs running senior-level programmes

Audience outcomes

• A clearer view of how senior international media is currently framing inclusion, AI and the future of work, and what that means for corporate messaging.
• A more candid panel conversation than the typical inclusion stage allows, with follow-up questions that surface the practical decisions, not the slogans.
• A working sense of how global market coverage and people-and-culture stories are converging in the financial press.
• An understanding of where inclusion claims are being tested in public, and where they are still being accepted at face value.