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Elliott is an award-winning TV news correspondent, master of ceremonies and moderator. A regular on CNN, he received an Emmy for being part of the network’s breaking news coverage of the October 7 attacks. Likewise, he was an integral member of the CNN team that won 2024’s Overseas Press Club of America David Kaplan Award for Best TV news reporting from abroad.

Prior to working for CNN, Elliott was Bloomberg Television’s Middle East Editor, and before that, the news network’s Europe Business Editor. He led coverage of the biggest stories, including the global financial crisis, economic meltdowns in Ireland and Greece, and elections in the UK, Turkey and Spain. In 2008 he was shortlisted for a Business Journalist of the Year award.

From 2003 till 2005, Elliott was the BBC’s South America Correspondent, and before that, the broadcaster’s man in Lima, where he also reported for ABC News, CBS and a number of major newspapers and magazines.

During his 25-year career in broadcasting, Elliott has also interviewed prime ministers and presidents, including Hugo Chavez, David Cameron and Shimon Peres; business and finance leaders, such as Christine Lagarde and Richard Branson; and Nobel Laureates, like Mario Vargas Llosa.

As an in-demand master of ceremonies and moderator, Elliott has hosted and moderated at scores of business and tech conferences around the world, including LEAP (Riyadh), The Paris Fintech Forum; Big Data & AI World (London); the Global Freight Summit (Dubai); Hong Kong Fintech Week; Sea: The Future (London); and the Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence (Singapore). He lives in London with his two children and his one-eyed dog, Molly.

Max has lived in Hong Kong and China for more than 15 years and is fluent in Russian, Polish, Mandarin and French. He has worked in international business for many years as commodity trader, investment banker, and entrepreneur setting us his own company MJ Capital in 2018 specialising cross-border M&A deals in emerging markets.

Max’s spirit of adventure led him to spend two months in China, travelling across the country with his father Stanley Johnson, filming In the Footsteps of Marco Polo – a 4 part documentary series following Marco Polo’s route across China. In the series, for international distribution, Max interviewed contributors, presented pieces to camera (scripted and unscripted) and gained experience of working on a large overseas production.

Max’s first appearance on camera was as a child actor in Julian Fellowes’ BBC production of The Prince and the Pauper and he still has a love of acting.

A keen runner, Max completed the Pyongyang Marathon and also has a black belt in Taekwondo.

Felicity Hannah is a highly experienced, multi award-winning journalist, specialising in personal finance, consumer affairs and business. She regularly presents several BBC radio programmes, including Money Box, Money Box Live, Wake Up To Money and You and Yours. She recently co-hosted the Big Green Money Show with Deborah Meaden. On top of those, Felicity is a regular business news presenter for Radio 4’s Today programme and co-presents a variety of programmes on Radio 5 Live.

She has made several investigative documentaries, including 3 episodes of Radio 4’s File On 4, Uninsurable Planet on Radio 4 and also the enormously successful recent series of the BBC podcast Understand: The Economy.

Felicity is regularly featured as an expert on other programmes, including Rip Off Britain, ITV’s Lorraine and BBC Breakfast.

Over her career, Felicity has written for The Times and Sunday Times, The Mirror, The Guardian and The Independent, demonstrating an ability to change her tone and style to suit numerous different audiences.

Felicity won ‘Broadcast Journalist of the Year’ three times in a row at the Headlinemoney Awards and each time the judges praised her warmth and engaging manner. To date, she has secured 10 journalism awards, six of those for her broadcast work.

Liam Halligan is a leading economist, author, columnist and broadcaster – who also has extensive business experience. Since 2003, he has written his multiple award-winning weekly Economic Agenda column in The Sunday Telegraph – which enjoys a large domestic and international following and has been recognised with a British Press Award, the highest prize in UK print journalism.

Widely read in the City and other financial capitals, Liam has a reputation for prescient economic predictions, often made against conventional wisdom. In March 2021, with UK inflation at just 0.7%, way below the Bank of England’s 2% target, Liam laid out the reasons in Economic Agenda why “inflation could soon surge” – a forecast senior policymakers publicly derided. A year later, inflation had indeed surged to 7%, a 30-year high, before pushing to a 40-year high in the aftermath of the escalation of war in Ukraine.

Similarly, in July 2024, when Keir Starmer was widely-described as a “lucky general” following that month’s landslide election win, Economic Agenda explained why pressing fiscal constraints and looming bond market turmoil  meant “Starmer’s all-conquering administration could be a one-term government”. Several months later, government debt costs indeed began to spiral upward, culminating in the worst bond market turbulence since the 2008 financial crisis and persistent questions about Labour’s economic competence.

Aside from his writing on economics, Liam also created the Telegraph’s hugely popular Planet Normal podcast, covering broader political and societal themes, which he co-presents each week with fellow Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson. Planet Normal regularly appears in the Apple news podcast top ten global rankings.

Liam’s latest book – Home Truths: The UK’s Chronic Housing Shortage – How it Happened, Why it Matters and How to Solve it – was published in 2021 to rave reviews. The Times described the book as “vivid and lucid, a brilliantly written gem” while the housing charity Shelter said Home Truths was “full of eloquence and moral clarity – a call to arms for politicians and campaigners of all parties and none”.

Along with his roles at the Telegraph, Liam also writes regularly for The Spectator and has appeared countless times on flagship BBC shows – including Question Time, Any Questions and Today, as well as on Sky News, CNBC, Times Radio, Bloomberg TV and many others.

He previously featured three times a week on CNN-Talk – analysing global political and economic news on live television, for a worldwide television audience.

Earlier in his career, Liam was based in Russia – where he wrote an influential column in The Moscow Times, while covering Russia and the Former Soviet Union for The Economist and The Economist Intelligence Unit. He then became Political Correspondent for The Financial Times (based in Parliament) before spending almost a decade leading the economics and business coverage at Channel 4 News.

Since then, Liam has continued to research, write and present hard-hitting Dispatches documentaries for Channel 4 – and has won the Wincott Business Broadcast Award a record four times, as well being twice recognised as the World Leadership Forum Business Broadcaster of the Year. He has, for many years, served on the judging panel of the Royal Television Society journalism awards.

Alongside his extensive media experience, Liam was a founder board member and partner of a leading asset-management company focussed on emerging markets, helping to manage a $4-5 billion portfolio of investment on behalf of highly sophisticated private and sovereign institutional investors from the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He has extensive board room experience and maintains an active pro bono portfolio, not least in the education sector, currently serving as a governor of both The John Lyon School (which he attended on a scholarship) and Harrow School.

Liam is a very experienced and sought-after public speaker – who combines widely recognised expertise across economics, finance and politics with personality and humour. He has given keynote addresses to numerous high-level audiences, in person and on-line, in both conference and after-dinner settings, headlining events run by Thomson Reuters, Euromoney, JCB, the CFA Institute, Deutsche Bank and the St Petersburg International Economic Forum among many others.

He has also hosted an array of conferences, often on complex economic and financial issues, for clients ranging from the Association of British Insurers, The Financial Conduct Authority, Eversheds, Microsoft, the Telegraph Festival of Business and the OECD’s flagship 50th Anniversary Forum.

As a leading economics journalist and recognised policy expert, Liam has been called upon to testify in front of numerous committees of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords – on subjects ranging from housing to global central banking, UK trade policy, the future of the BBC and “Britain’s digital divide”.

But his range of experience and expertise, as both a speaker and convener, extends beyond economic and business themes, to include diplomatic and geo-strategic issues too – relating to the UK, US, Europe and beyond. He has a particularly deep knowledge of the post-Communist world, emerging markets more broadly and global energy markets.

Liam holds a first-class BSc. (Econ) degree from the University of Warwick and an MPhil (Econ) from St Antony’s College, Oxford University. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Social Market Foundation, a Westminster-based think-tank, and the Economics Department of The University of Warwick.

A citizen of both the UK and the Republic of Ireland, Liam is listed in Who’s Who, De Bretts and the Dictionary of International Biography.

“Liam Halligan is the best economics journalist of his generation – his writing is always prescient, vivid and lucid”.
Lord Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor

“Liam Halligan is a one-off – a card-carrying economist, with high-level political access, who can explain complex issues in readable, vivid prose”.
Andrew Neil, Times Radio presenter

“Liam Halligan is required reading for anyone who wants to understand how our housing market – and the broader UK economy – really works”
Merryn Somerset Webb, Financial Times

“Many people claim to speak truth to power but very few actually do. Liam Halligan is one of the few – a great and fearless truth-teller”.
Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

“What Liam Halligan doesn’t know about the UK economy – and economics more generally –isn’t worth knowing”.
Iain Dale, LBC presenter.

“Liam Halligan isn’t only a brilliant journalist. He is an economist of genuine substance, with deep and widely-recognised expertise, who can explain complex ideas to a broad audience better than anyone I know”
Konstantin Kisin, presenter, Triggernometry podcast

“Liam Halligan is an economist I respect enormously, whose work I have followed closely for many years”.
Lord David Owen, former Foreign Secretary and Independent Peer

Tim Harford is an economist, award-winning journalist and speaker, TV and radio personality, and bestselling author. His books, most famously The Undercover Economist, have been translated into 30 languages and have sold nearly one million copies worldwide, hitting the bestseller lists not only in the US, UK and Canada but in translation from Spain to South Korea.

Tim is well-known as the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s More or Less (named by The Times as its favourite Politics & Economics podcast) and the global hit series 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy on BBC World Service and Radio 4. The podcast version has topped the iTunes charts and has been called “superbly informative” by the Sunday Times. Tim also presented the weekly Radio 4 series How to Vaccinate the World which followed the race to roll out an effective vaccination against Covid-19 and most recently the 10-part series Understand: The Economy for Radio 4 & BBC Sounds and The Economy: What They Aren’t Telling You with Tim Harford for Channel 4 in the lead up to the 2024 UK General Election. He also presents the popular podcast Cautionary Tales.

Although Tim is a serious economist – after a career spanning Shell, the World Bank and tutoring at Oxford University, he is now a visiting fellow at Nuffield college, Oxford – his unique talent lies in the humorous touch he brings to his subject. His weekly Financial Times columns have attracted a cult following.

As we all as The Undercover Economist Tim is the author of nine other books including Adapt, Messy, 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy, The Next 50 Things, How to Make the World Add Up and the childrens’ book The Truth Detective.

Tim has also been published in Slate, Esquire, Forbes, New York Magazine, Parade, Wired, the Washington Post, The Times (London), and the New York Times. He won the 2006 Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2006 and 2016, the Wincott journalist of the year award in 2020, and has been made an honorary fellow pf the Royal Statistical Society. A regular commentator on TV and radio shows on both sides of the Atlantic, Tim fronted the BBC 2 television series Trust Me. I’m an Economist.

Tim was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to improving economic understanding.

He lives in Oxford with his wife and three children.

Martin Lewis CBE, the Money Saving Expert, is a campaigning broadcast journalist who founded and Chairs MoneySavingExpert.com, by far the UK’s biggest consumer website – over 8m people receive his weekly email. He has completed 11 series of his eponymous, now live, prime-time ITV show, his podcast is one of the BBC’s most listened to, he is a regular presenter of Good Morning Britain, and resident expert on This Morning.

In profile pieces, the FT called him “the most successful journalist in the world, ever”, the Guardian “the most trusted man in Britain” and the Economist said he “has a good claim to be the most influential man in British politics” and Google once named him the most searched for British Man.

Over the years he’s spearheaded major financial justice campaigns including £1bn of bank charges reclaiming back, £10bn of PPI reclaiming back and got financial education on the national curriculum. He was a key voice in the pandemic to improve and communicate state support schemes, and got major policies shifts on energy and mortgages amidst the cost of living crisis.
In 2016 he founded and funded the influential Money and Mental Health Policy Institute charity, which he still chairs.

Awards include:
– CBE (2022) for broadcasting and consumer rights, OBE (2014) for consumer rights and charity.
– National Television Awards, inaugural and still only Best Expert (2022) winner, Top Presenter nominee (2023)
– Beacon Philanthropy Fellowship ‘Trailblazer’ award
– New Statesman Positive Impact in Society Award (2022)

Adam Boulton is a pioneering broadcaster and veteran political journalist.

He currently presents Times Radio’s flagship Sunday morning programme as well as stints presenting Drive as well as the Worldview podcast for Englesberg Ideas. He is a weekly columnist for Sky News online and Reaction Life, as well as being a political commentator on the BBC, LBC, i newspaper, Talk TV and numerous international outlets. Adam also speaks to and moderates at conferences and private meetings, most recently at the FII Future Investment Forum and the LEAP Tech Event.

Adam’s insatiable appetite for breaking news, ability to think on his feet and innate analytical skills have seen him host countless hours of live television including rolling Election Coverage from the UK, US, Ireland, France and Germany.

Adam was the founding Political Editor of Sky News. Over more than three decades at the network he reported from every continent with a wide-ranging brief, encompassing everything from politics to popular culture. Programmes he presented included the eponymous weekly show, and post-Brexit, the daily All Out Politics programme and podcast. In 2010 Adam was instrumental in brokering a deal with David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg to stage the ground-breaking General Election Leaders Debates, so far the only UK election cycle in which they have taken place. He moderated the second debate in Bristol, the most watched Sky News programme to date.

In at the beginning of two start-ups, Sky in 1989 and TVam in 1983, Adam redefined political news coverage in the UK, harnessing developing technology to introduce on-location reportage, reaction and analysis in real time. Unique at the time, this is now the industry standard. Never shy to speak his mind, Adam’s celebrated on-air spat with Alastair Campbell in the aftermath of the 2010 election is still one of the most memorable moments of that campaign. Adam was a popular choice as winner of the Royal Television Society’s supreme Judges’ Award.

Adam has the distinction of having interviewed every UK Prime Minister from Sir Alec Douglas Home to Rishi Sunak. He has covered all major developments in US politics since the Reagan years, from the USA-USSR Summits through to correctly ‘calling’ the election of President Joseph R Biden live on Sky News. He was in Washington DC again covering the second impeachment of Donald J Trump.

Adam served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Lobby, the elite band of senior political journalists in Westminster, he continues to hold a lobby ticket.

His books include Tony’s Ten Years: Memories of the Blair Administration, an acclaimed account of the Blair government, and the equally well received Hung Together: The 2010 Election and the Coalition Government. He was the political columnist for The Sunday Times for seven years and now writes for a number of leading newspapers and periodicals.

Much in demand as a public speaker, Adam has delivered keynote lectures for multi-national businesses, economic forums, universities, and media companies. A series of interviews he gave recently on the changing face of the British media has sparked a national debate that shows no sign of abating.

Although best known for his political programmes, Adam has a wide spectrum of interests and is both well informed and witty on a range of subjects. He was a long-serving governor of King’s College London and Sevenoaks School. His TV portfolio includes appearances on such diverse shows as Have I Got News for You, Newsnight, Celebrity Mastermind and Christmas University Challenge. He is proactive on social media, with over 220,000 followers on Twitter.

Daisy is a freelance radio and TV presenter, reporter and writer. She has 30 years’ experience reporting on UK politics, economics and business as well as the British Royal Family.

Daisy has had senior reporting roles at BBC and ITV News including Chief Political Correspondent, Economics Editor and Special Correspondent. She is a well-known face on American TV screens as NBC News’ Royal Commentator.

She has presented Daily Politics, Weekend News, Heaven and Earth & The World Tonight for the BBC, Driving Miss Daisy & the O2 Business Show on LBC, The Lunchtime News & Moral of the Story on ITV, Powerhouse on Channel 4, a daily election show on London Live TV, and a number of shows for TalkRadio & Talk TV.

Daisy is a regular paper reviewer on the BBC News Channel, BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House, and on Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips. She also appears regularly as a panellist on Sky News’ Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge.

Daisy has appeared as a guest on Have I Got News for You?, The Wright Stuff, The Jeremy Vine Show, Loose Women and Despatch Box among others and is a familiar face on ITV’s This Morning, Good Morning Britain and Euronews.

Before moving into broadcasting in 2001 she spent a decade working in Westminster, starting off as a 19-year-old MP’s researcher before writing for many newspapers from the Press Gallery, profiling MPs in The House Magazine – which she ultimately edited – as well as working for Lib Dem Leader Charles Kennedy as his Press Secretary. She was a consultant on the BBC’s A-Z of Politics and edited The Politics Companion, published by Chrysalis books.

In the corporate world, Daisy has a wealth of experience as an Awards and Events host, chairing and moderating panels and with her long media career spanning politics and Royalty, Daisy is often invited to deliver keynote speeches. Accolades include ‘Daisy is easy to work with and an amazing professional’ and ‘she kept the audience captivated.’