Emily Maitlis

"How can I thank you enough for such an insightful and amusing presentation earlier this week. Everyone loved it and you had our clients in stitches. They said this was the best seminar they have come to in the 15 years we have been holding them, no doubt much down to you, so it will be a hard act to follow" - Head of Wealth Management, at a prestigious city bank.

"She was absolutely amazing!!! So wonderful, warm, open, insightful. Everyone loved her." - Inflexion November 2023

"If you could pass on our thanks to Emily for being an outstanding guest at Saatchi Table on Weds 22 Nov. Because of her, it was both a riot and an education" - Saatchi & Saatchi November 2023

Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Emily Maitlis was recognised by GQ Magazine as
one of the most influential people in Britain. She presents the Gold Award winning daily
podcast, The News Agents and the weekly The News Agents USA for Global Media. Having
covered elections in the US and UK for the BBC, she also fronted Newsnight, becoming a stalwart of the broadcaster’s news output and a trusted voice with the viewing public.
Emily anchored the 2024 Ch4’s General Election live coverage – Britain Decides which was widely acknowledged as the most enjoyable and critically acclaimed. She also anchored Ch4’s US live election coverage from Washington, their first in 32 years.

2026 will see Emily Maitlis front a landmark 2 part documentary for Channel 4 with Lion Television, examining one of the most consequential and disturbing scandals of the 21st century — the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Emily has Executive Produced the Amazon Prime series ‘A Very Royal Scandal’, starring Ruth
Wilson and Michael Sheen. The series is a retelling of Emily’s professional and personal
journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew
in 2019.

Winner of RTS Television Journalism Awards – Network Presenter of the Year 2019,
Interview of the year 2020, Network Presenter of the year 2020, Scoop of the Year 2020,
British Journalism Awards – Interview of the Year 2020 and Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award
2020. The Spotlight Award, and 2 Golds at the British Podcast Awards for Best News & Current Affairs Podcast.

As part of the London Literature Festival Emily interviewed Yulia Navalnaya in the Royal Festival Hall. They discussed Yulia’s late husband’s book ‘Alexei Navalny: Patriot’, which he wrote whilst in prison and after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020.

She has interviewed Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, as well as each of the last six
UK Prime Ministers among numerous other political leaders. In the world of culture and
international affairs, she has sat down with subjects including Mark Zuckerberg, Usain Bolt,
Sheryl Sandberg, Marine le Pen, and Emma Thompson. In a groundbreaking interview that
defined the news and cultural narrative, she spoke exclusively to Prince Andrew, as the royal
talked publicly for the first time about his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

Emily Co-Executive Produced the documentary, Andrew – The Problem Prince, which
examined his decision to be interviewed and the aftermath, aired in two parts on Channel 4
in 2023.

Having departed the BBC and signed with Global, the media and entertainment group,
building upon the success of the Americast podcast, The News Agents shot to the top of the
podcast charts and recently won a Gold Award at the British Podcast Awards. It has instantly
become the go to listen for intelligent analysis, deep diving into the day’s news with expert
opinion. It has been joined by The News Agents USA. This year, The News Agent’s continued their winning streak at The British Podcast Awards, once again taking home gold for the Best News & Current Affairs Podcast category as well as winning the Spotlight Award.

Author of the Sunday Times bestseller, ‘Airhead: An Exploration of the Imperfect Art of
Making News’ she has written for The Sunday Times and The Spectator as well as The Guardian, The Evening Standard and The New Statesman and inews.

Emily delivered the flagship address of the 2022 Edinburgh TV Festival – The James
MacTaggart Memorial Lecture – as the Festival returned to an in-person event at the end of
August. The lecture covered the complex world of modern journalism, exploring the threat
to reporting the news and holding power to account across the globe, how it comes not just
with intimidation and outright censorship, but in more nuanced ways with language and
normalizing the extraordinary.

Celebrated for her unique and inimitable style, GQ Magazine said –“Don’t confuse her with
Andrew Neil. He grills; she incinerates”.

She lives with her two sons, one husband and an extraordinarily entitled whippet, Moody.

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