Adam Shaw has become one of the most recognisable faces of business journalism on television. He is a regular presenter of BBC 1’s Panorama – the world’s longest running current affairs programme. He was the senior business presenter on Radio 4’s Today programme - one of the most powerful news and current affairs programmes in the UK. He is the lead presenter of Horizons on BBC World News, which identifies emerging new business and technology ideas around the world and has been filmed across over 40 countries.
Adam was also the presenter of the radio programmes: Financial World Tonight and Wake Up To Money. He is also the author of a number of books on politics and finance.
He has recently presented two new light hearted series for ITV 1 – Cook Me The Money which looks at the drama behind setting up a pop up restaurant for the day and Drive To Buy which takes couples on a property buying tour of the UK.
He was the presenter of The Dame Game for the BBC which looked at the history of pantomime and the Pantomime Dame. He presented and wrote Tutus and Tiaras for BBC 2/News 24 in which BBC cameras were allowed behind the scenes of the English National Ballet looking at a year in their life, as the company tried to find the finance for and produce their latest version of the Nutcracker which was designed by Gerald Scarfe.
Many years ago he acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company and still has a keen interest in the theatre. Adam was more recently in the Universal Pictures film The Tale of Despereaux. He is also an Ambassador for the Woodland Trust.
He has interviewed most of the chief executives of the UK’s biggest companies. His reporting and presenting has won him many awards.
- Association of Investment Companies - Best Broadcast Journalist of the Year
- Association of British Insurers – Financial Broadcaster of the Year
- Plain English Campaign - Broadcaster of the Year
- Proshare - Personality of the Year
- Institute of Financial Accountants - Award for Today programme’s best business coverage
In addition to his passion for demystifying the complicated world of finances and business, Adam has a keen interest in the theatre and, as a young actor, even spent a season at the Royal Shakespeare Company
In addition to his work on television and radio, Adam has written for a number of newspapers including the Independent, Mail on Sunday and the Metro. He has written and co-authored a number of books: Political Rhubarb, Money and How to Make More of It, Managing Credit and Investing Basics.
Adam also chairs conferences and seminars and is a highly skilled conference facilitator and after dinner speaker. He has a wealth of experience hosting events and award ceremonies, both at home and abroad.
Contact Agent: info@knightayton.co.uk
Twitter: @AdamShawBiz
Adam Shaw is an award winning financial reporter and presenter.
He is one of the best known financial faces on television and radio. He currently presents the BBC World News series, Horizons, many Panoramas for BBC1 and Drive to Buy on ITV1. He is regularly on BBC1's The One Show and for many years presented BBC2's Working Lunch.
He has also been the business presenter of the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs programme, the Today Programme, which is listened to by 7 million people every day.
In November 2011 he won the Financial Broadcaster of the Year award, presented by the ABI, which represents major investors and insurers.
He has interviewed most of the chief executives of the UK’s biggest companies. His reporting and presenting has won him many awards. In addition to his most recent award, The Plain English Campaign made him their Broadcaster of the Year. He was awarded the Best Broadcast Journalist of the Year by the Association of Investment Companies'. His business coverage on the Today programme won the Best Business Radio Programme award from the Institute of Financial Accountants. In addition to that, he was twice made the Proshare personality of the year for his work in reporting on the world of shares and investments.
Adam regularly speaks at, chairs and facilitates corporate events and receives consistently high praise for his work.
Recent testimonials include:
Facilitating Group Conference for 5000 Internal Staff of high street bank
Adam was great, we were very happy working with him. He was calm, obliging, flexible and dealt smoothly with several last minute curve balls on delegate logistics. So, from our perspective a pleasure to work with and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him for future events.
Speech at Market Gravity Awards
It was an excellent evening enjoyed by all. We received many spontaneous compliments for Adam’s excellent talk from the guests. Everyone agreed it was a winning combination of humour, business insight and a uniquely global perspective that prompted fresh thinking. We would be very happy to recommend him as a speaker.
Host, Fast Growth Business Awards
Adam is a pleasure to work with. He made my job as project manager easy. During the night he got the audience involved and was amazing on stage. This is the second time in a row Crimson have had Adam host our awards.
Speech at Durham Business School
Excellent delivery with an interesting way of getting the sometimes hard going content across. Adam was a very friendly approachable guy who was willing to help us out with other aspects of our event.The audience response was very positive and his speech was well received. It was a great way to end the event. We would definitely recommend Adam for any speaking engagement.
Host, Question Time for Entrepreneurs at the British Library
Thank you for hosting last week’s event. The feedback has been exceptionally positive. Thank you for lending your skills to encourage such a lively debate and for enabling us to host such a fascinating evening.
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Twitter: @AdamShawBiz
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