Speakers

Rosanna Lockwood is a leading International News Anchor, with a track record which includes presenting her own programme “Prime Time with Rosanna Lockwood” on TalkTV and extensive anchoring work for CNBC, as well as hosting and moderating at major events such as COP and the World Economic Forum. Rosanna lives in Dubai and in 2024 was a Senior Presenter and show host for Al Arabiya English - the English service of the Arab World’s leading news channel.

Rosanna has spent more than a decade working as a Presenter and Correspondent for major networks across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, delivering insight and  perspective on the hyper-speed news cycle and her Prime Time programme provided a high-impact forum for analysis and debate on the major stories in the UK and around the world, including a focus on business and technology. Rosanna was also guest host  standing-in for Piers Morgan on his flagship show ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored’ and  has fronted prime time news shows for other networks from London, Istanbul, Dubai, and Singapore.

Previously, Rosanna anchored Squawk Box and Street Signs programming in both London and Singapore for CNBC International, alongside providing European markets reporting for CNBC U.S., MSNBC and the wider NBC network. She has also presented long-form episodes of CNBC’s The Edge and Inside E-Commerce. Her core topics include  economics, geopolitics, sustainability and energy.

Rosanna has interviewed world leaders, central bank governors, and CEOs, and her prowess in the field of business and finance has made her a popular MC, chairperson, and panel moderator, for live events around the world. She has delivered on-stage discussions with Nobel Prize-winning scientists, best-selling authors, and senior bankers at major  conferences and summits in London, Barcelona, Paris, New York, Cairo, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Singapore. She has also filmed and hosted projects in conjunction with the UN's Climate Change Conference (COP) in Egypt and the World Economic Forum in  Davos, Switzerland. 

An experienced Correspondent, Rosanna has covered Middle East stock markets from the Reuters bureau in Dubai, and reported live from Downing Street in London, and from on board an aircraft carrier in the Singapore Strait for CNBC. She began her career as a reporter and producer for the BBC, Bloomberg TV, LBC and ITN in the UK.