Susannah Streeter

Why organisations work with Susannah Streeter

• She operates from inside the market, not outside it. As Chief Investment Strategist at Wealth Club, and formerly Head of Money and Markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, she is tracking monetary policy, geopolitical risk, and trade disruption as a current institutional participant, not a commentator looking in.
• Seventeen years anchoring flagship BBC business programmes gave her a specific and rare skill: the ability to break down conditions that are genuinely complex – rate cycles, tariff shocks, energy transition finance – in real time, under pressure, for audiences with no economics background.
• Her conference record means she has led the room at the OECD’s Better Policies, Better Lives summit, the Paris Club forum, the World Green Economy Summit, and the Global Air and Space Chiefs Conference – not as a moderator, but as the person responsible for the quality of the debate.
• The Headline Money Expert of the Year award (2022) and the Money Age thought leadership award (2024) provide independent validation of a market commentary track record built in a competitive, institutionally scrutinised environment.
• Her decade as an RAF Reserve Squadron Leader, leading a combat camera team on operations around the world, produces a lens on geopolitical risk and decision-making under uncertainty that financial commentators almost never carry.

Biography highlights

• Chief Investment Strategist, Wealth Club (from January 2026); formerly Head of Money and Markets, Hargreaves Lansdown, the UK’s largest retail investment platform
• BBC business news anchor for 17 years: World Business Report and Business Matters (BBC World Service), BBC World TV, BBC Breakfast, Newsnight
• Headline Money Expert of the Year 2022; Headline Money Thought Leadership of the Year 2023; Money Age awards 2024
• Regular columnist: Evening Standard (City Voices) and City AM (The Notebook); speech published in Nautilus magazine
• Conference chair: OECD Better Policies, Better Lives summit (Paris, 2024); Paris Club forum (2023, bilingual); World Green Economy Summit (Dubai, twice); Global Fund 6th Replenishment Conference (Lyon, in French); Arctic Frontiers (Tromsø, since 2022); Global Air and Space Chiefs Conference (London, three consecutive years); European Nuclear Energy Forum
• Former RAF Reserve Squadron Leader, 7644 Squadron (media operations unit); Wall of Honour, RAF Cranwell; NATO representation via the Inter-allied Confederation of Reserve Officers

Biography

Financial market volatility used to sit within the CFO’s remit. Today, trade policy shifts, rate cycle reversals, and energy price shocks are working their way into strategy, capital allocation, and hiring decisions at every level. The organisations that handle this best are the ones where senior teams can actually interpret the signals, not just receive them.

Susannah Streeter was a BBC business news anchor for 17 years, presenting World Business Report and Business Matters on the BBC World Service and reporting for BBC Breakfast and Newsnight. She then moved inside the financial industry itself: first as Head of Money and Markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, then as Chief Investment Strategist at Wealth Club, where she now leads investment commentary across public equities, private markets, and venture capital trusts for high-net-worth investors.

Her conference record runs from the OECD’s Better Policies, Better Lives summit in Paris and the Paris Club forum to the World Green Economy Summit in Dubai and consecutive Arctic Frontiers conferences in Tromsø – in each case not as an outside voice, but as the person leading the room. The Headline Money Expert of the Year award (2022) and the Money Age thought leadership award (2024) reflect a commentary practice independently recognised across the industry. She writes a regular column for the Evening Standard and City AM.

Her RAF Reserve career; a decade as a Squadron Leader leading the combat camera team on exercises and operations around the world, gives her a frame on geopolitical risk and organisational decision-making under uncertainty that is almost absent from financial commentary. It is that combination of practitioner-level market intelligence, institutional credibility, and operational experience that makes her a distinctive voice in board-level conversations on the global economy.

Key speaking topics

• Global economic trends and monetary policy
• Geopolitical risk and trade disruption
• Energy transition and sustainability finance
• AI and technological change in financial markets
• Scenario planning and strategic foresight
• Resilience and leadership under uncertainty
• Women’s financial empowerment and the gender investment gap

Ideal for

• CFOs and finance leadership teams navigating macro and geopolitical volatility
• Boards and executive committees seeking economic and geopolitical scenario context
• Investment, asset management, and financial services conferences
• Senior leadership forums on strategic risk, foresight, and global market conditions

Audience outcomes

• A clearer framework for connecting macro signals – rate cycles, trade shifts, energy prices – to decisions the organisation faces now
• A more confident understanding of what current financial market conditions mean for their sector specifically
• A working model for how geopolitical disruption transmits through supply chains, investment decisions, and capital markets
• Greater fluency in the economic and geopolitical language that runs through strategic conversations at board level
• Practical grounding in how to assess and communicate macro risk – to investors, boards, and leadership teams – without losing the argument in data