Michael Buerk
Award Winning International Journalist
Award winning international journalist
Michael Buerk chairs conferences and seminars and is a highly skilled conference facilitator, awards host and after dinner speaker. He has a wealth of hosting experience, both at in the UK and abroad.
Michael has probably won more international awards for television reporting than any other British journalist most notably for his coverage of the Ethiopian famine for BBC News in 1984/5.
He presented BBC Television’s flagship news programme, The Ten O’clock News and he also presented the peak-time BBC 1 programme about emergencies, 999.
TOPICS
News and Current Affairs
Travel and Adventure
Consumer and Lifestyle
International Affairs
BIOGRAPHY
Michael is chairman of the BBC’s discussion programme on moral and ethical issues The Moral Maze (BBC Radio 4). He has also presented The Choice for Radio 4, a single interview programme about individual dilemmas.
In addition he chairs, presents, reports for, and contributes to, a number of other television and radio programmes, mostly for the BBC. These have included major events such as the Royal Wedding of Prince Edward, the Eclipse and the BBC’s Millennium night coverage, and also BBC1 docudrama Wren: The Man Who Built Britain and major BBC1 series Tobacco Wars and Soul of Britain and the three-part series The Hand of God in 2003. In 2005 he presented What Are Men For? as part of the Don’t Get Me Started series on Channel Five. Michael also narrated the popular Sky1 series, Pineapple Dance Studios.
Michael has recently presented major series on ITV; Britain’s Secret Treasures in conjunction with the British Museum, Britain’s Secret Homes and Inside the National Trust for ITV. He has also presented two episodes of the investigative programme on Channel 4, Dispatches.
Michael’s autobiography, The Road Taken, was published by in 2004.
He was named “Television Journalist of the Year” by the Royal Television Society in 1984 and won a second RTS award that year for foreign reporting.
He has won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for factual broadcasting.
He has been awarded the “Golden Nymph” at the Monte Carlo Film and Television Festival Europe’s premier prize for television journalism and the United States “National Headliner” and “George Polk” awards, two of the three most important honours there for broadcasters.
TESTIMONIAL
As expected, Michael Buerk was the ‘star of the show’ and kept our delegates ‘glued’ with both of his wit and his outlook on the world. His references to the bathroom and kitchen industry were spot on.
Keynote speech at BMA Kitchens and Bathrooms Business Conference
Michael was amazing !!!!
Facilitating Education Global Business Summit
Michael did a great job, so much so that they finished an hour early – fab!
Facilitate Live Educational Webcast
Just a quick note to thank you again for a terrific lunch on Friday. Full inbox of congratulatory emails over the weekend prove everyone thoroughly enjoyed the occasion and your speech in particular.
Speech, Monaco, October 2011
Michael was a pleasure to work with. He was lovely to have around during the day and we all felt completely at ease with him.
Audience response to your presentation: Absolutely fantastic. We had some very positive comments from our guests and it was obvious from their reaction during the presentation that he had the perfect balance between sincerity and humour.
General Observations: I would have no problems at all in recommending Michael to other event organisers, he really was exceptional!
National Rail Awards 2011
Lovely to work with you again this year, as ever you were fabulous so thanks very much.
Speaker and host of Pharmaceutical Awards
Speech, Annual Consultation event
Your speech was intensely thought provoking, really bringing home to our members the ethical issues going on around the world.
The feedback from our members has been extremely positive, some rating this year’s Annual Consultation as the best they have been to. Thanks for helping us to make it such a success.
Facilitating, major accountant’s Masterclass
I wanted to drop you a line to say how much we enjoyed having Michael facilitate our conference on Tuesday. He was an excellent addition to the morning and helped the whole day become a success.