Emily Maitlis

Emily Maitlis became a household name and famous face as presenter of BBC’s flagship current affairs flagship, Newsnight, on BBC 2. She began her TV career in Hong Kong with NBC Asia before moving to Sky. She covered eighteen months of the US Presidential primaries and the campaign and has interviewed Donald Trump more than once, as well as the last five British Prime Ministers.

Emily’s documentary Expenses: The Scandal That Changed Britain investigated the expenses scandal that shook the British political landscape a decade ago and the impact it had on public trust that is still very much relevant to politics today.

An exclusive television interview with Mark Zuckerberg featured in her BBC documentary Inside Facebook: Zuckerberg’s $100 Billion Gamble. Emily has interviewed Kofi Annan, Julian Assange, David Beckham, Michael Caine, Hugh Grant, Marine Le Pen, Christine Lagarde and the Dalai Lama amongst many others. Arguably her most famous interview to date has been with Prince Andrew on his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Emily was awarded Interview of the Year and Scoop of the Year awards at the RTS Television Journalism Awards in 2020. It has since been made into two feature films: A Very Royal Scandal for which she was an executive producer and Scoop, in 2024 in which Gillian Anderson plays the part of Emily.

In 2019 Emily Maitlis was named as the Network Presenter of the Year at the RTS Television Journalism Awards. She previously won the London Press Club ‘Broadcast Journalist of the Year’ Award for her work on Newsnight and the Wincott Business Award for her documentary with Mark Zuckerberg. Since leaving the BBC in 2021 she has broadcast on UK national talk radio station, LBC.

Emily’s book Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News was published in April 2019. She has written for GQ, The Sunday Times and the Spectator Magazine as well as The Guardian, the Evening Standard and the New Statesman.

Emily speaks basic Mandarin as well as fluent French, Spanish and Italian.

Contact Emily Maitlis via a Specialist Speakers agent on 01455 633289 for speaking and presentation in both in-person and virtual settings.