Nadine Dereza

Chair

Nadine Dereza is an award-winning journalist and presents business, news and entertainment programmes on TV and radio. Nadine chairs, hosts, and facilitates conferences, panel discussions and live events for a diverse range of clients in the UK and internationally. She currently presents a tech programme for CNBC.  Nadine has also presented for Associated Press, BBC, CNN, SABC, Simply Money, Sky TV, Summit TV and Talk Radio. With an in-depth knowledge of business and finance, Nadine was named as ‘Financial Journalist of the Year’ during her time at the Financial Times and Summit TV. Over the years, she has worked with the full business spectrum – from entrepreneurs to management teams to CEOs and has also interviewed key policy and decision makers, as well as countless global politicians.  Department for Business, Innovation and Skills appointed Nadine as a Non-Executive Director of the WorldSkills London Board. This was for the duration of the ‘Skills Olympics’ 4-year project to promote best practice apprenticeships and vocational training in the UK. Nadine is also founder and Media Director of Babaco Media, communication skills specialists in preparing clients for media interviews, presentations, crisis planning and parliamentary committee hearings to some of the best-known brands, organisations, and businesses. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and an Ambassador for Workers’ Educational Association (WEA). Nadine is a Judge for The Business Books Awards and Young Enterprise. She is co-author of the 5-star rated best seller Insider Secrets of Public Speaking.  Nadine is Mum to two children, aged 22 and 17 and she currently rents a self storage unit!