International Presenter
Rosanna Lockwood is a British broadcast journalist and international presenter with significant experience anchoring prime-time news and interview shows for major networks across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Now based in Dubai, Rosanna travels widely for broadcast and live event projects.
Previously, Rosanna hosted her own daily interview show ‘Prime Time with Rosanna Lockwood’ live on television and online, 7-8pm from the News UK studios in London. She was also Piers Morgan’s regular stand-in for his flagship debate show 'Piers Morgan Uncensored'.
Prior to this, Rosanna was with CNBC International, anchoring Squawk Box and Street Signs programming in London and Singapore, 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 and geopolitics.
An experienced journalist, Rosanna began her news career as a reporter and producer for the BBC, Bloomberg TV, LBC and ITN. As a correspondent, she later covered Middle East stock markets from the Reuters bureau in Dubai, and reported live from Downing Street in London, and onboard an aircraft carrier in the Singapore Strait for CNBC. She has also fronted the launch of various news start-ups, including the expansion of Al Arabiya English from Dubai, and the launch of Talk TV in the UK.
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, 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.
About
Rosanna was born in Hong Kong as a British citizen and then mostly grew up in the southwest of England. She graduated with a BA degree in English Literature and Drama from Royal Holloway University of London in 2009 and started her career in financial communications. In 2013, Rosanna qualified as a journalist with a BJTC-accredited postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the London College of Communication, and then worked as a radio reporter for the BBC and LBC, and as a television producer for Bloomberg and ITN in the UK. In 2015, she moved to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where she worked as a freelance television news correspondent for Reuters, covering Middle East business and politics for broadcast clients, and developed a career as a chairperson and moderator for live events. In March 2020 Rosanna relocated to Singapore to join the on-air team for CNBC International, where she remained for the entire Covid-19 pandemic. She later transferred to the London bureau of CNBC International, and then stayed in the UK to launch her own prime time news show on Talk TV. Rosanna is now happily back in Dubai and travelling widely for international presenting projects.
In her spare time, Rosanna is proud to be a Senior Fellow for the John Schofield Trust in the UK, mentoring underprivileged early career journalists.
Expertise
events
A polished public speaker, chairperson and moderator for live events and conferences. Adept at facilitating conversations and managing complex debates across a wide range of subjects.
television
A skilled and experienced television news presenter, producer and editor with a specialist knowledge of international politics and business topics in breaking news environments.
radio
A passionate broadcast journalist, with a varied audio portfolio comprising talk radio and news reporting, as well as creative and corporate projects for international clients.
