Geoff Cutmore is journalist and freelance moderator. He is an internationally recognised face of Business and Finance news, and anchored CNBC’s flagship daily programme, Squawk box Europe, for nearly 30 years. He has a calm, but persistent interview style which once led Vladimir Putin to describe him as a 'scary man' at the St Petersburg International Forum. He has moderated at this event for several years, and while working in Russia conducted a world first and exclusive interview with billionaire oligarch and former English football club owner, Alisher Usmanov. Geoff has moderated the prestigious Global Economic Outlook panel – among others – and has anchored the WEF forum in Davos for more than 20 years. He also regularly chairs panels...
Geoff Cutmore is journalist and freelance moderator. He is an internationally recognised face of Business and Finance news, and anchored CNBC’s flagship daily programme, Squawk box Europe, for nearly 30 years.
He has a calm, but persistent interview style which once led Vladimir Putin to describe him as a ‘scary man’ at the St Petersburg International Forum. He has moderated at this event for several years, and while working in Russia conducted a world first and exclusive interview with billionaire oligarch and former English football club owner, Alisher Usmanov.
Geoff has moderated the prestigious Global Economic Outlook panel – among others – and has anchored the WEF forum in Davos for more than 20 years. He also regularly chairs panels at other WEF events in China and Turkey. Geoff also hosted and presented the COP 15 in Denmark (2009).
He has an enduring interest in Asia after working in Hong Kong for nearly a decade. Each year he attends the Boao Forum in Hainan Island and the China Development Forum in Beijing, as well as hosting CNBC’s East Tech West Forum in Guangzhou.
He also fronts CNBC’s Questions for the Future – a debate television show sponsored by Shell and with a live audience, hosted from destinations all around the world.
Geoff regularly anchored and moderated at the annual IMF/World Bank Autumn meeting in Washington DC. He hosted fireside interviews with the Head of the IMF and World Bank.
He has interviewed every President of the European Central Bank, three Governors of the Bank of England, US Treasury Secretaries, Russian Prime Ministers, Chancellors, and many Finance Ministers in Europe.
He regularly interviewed the CEOs & CFOs of the world’s blue-chip companies, and the CIOs, strategists, or asset allocators of the world’s biggest banks, insurance companies, and fund managers. Meanwhile, he has also conducted interviews with celebrities, including Ronaldo, Luis Figo, Ernie Els, Daryl Hannah, and more.
He has reported from and filmed in most major European cities, as well as in Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Dalian, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Hainan, Bangkok, Seoul, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City & Hanoi, Singapore, Hong Kong, Lima, New York City, Washington DC, Delhi, Mumbai, Perth, Greenland, Sakhalin, Iceland, Doha, Dubai, and Bahrain.
Geoff has moderated for and spoken at events for: Lombard Odier, Erste Bank, UBS, Credit Suisse, Threadneedle, Henderson Global Investors, City of London Corporation, FSN Capital Partners, YPO Global Leadership Summit, The Atlantic Council, Institute of International Finance, GE Wind Energy, and Dubai Business Forum, to name a few.
Geoff has made regular appearances on MSNBC to breakdown European business stories for an American audience. He has also appeared on Sky News.
In 2004 he published New Market Mavericks to positive reviews. He has contributed to newspapers and periodicals including the Investors Chronicle, The Nation, Money Market and Motorcycle News.
