TV Presenter and Journalist.

Kate Silverton is a highly accomplished, versatile journalist and a rising star of the BBC’s next generation of exciting talent. From being tear-gassed in Bethlehem and broadcasting from the frontline in Basra to figure-heading the BBC's coverage of the Oscars and the Glastonbury festival, Kate is as much at home in the war zones of the Middle East and Africa as she is rubbing shoulders with celebrities in the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles. In the process she has established herself as the new face of BBC news.

Having already enjoyed huge success on BBC Breakfast and BBC News 24, she recently launched the Corporation’s flagship 8pm bulletin and will now also present the One O’Clock News.

Kate has become a mainstay reporter for Panorama and presented the prime time BBC1 feature “Ultimate Wild Water”; winning huge acclaim for overcoming her fear of open water to tackle some of Britain’s most notorious waters by kayak.

Having previously worked as a corporate financier in the city before moving into journalism, Kate has developed a reputation for being warm, engaging and eclectic whilst also being hugely focused and highly professional.

It is this integrity and broad experience in both business and journalism that has enabled her to interview major political, military and showbusiness figures, whilst also chairing conferences and debates for some of Britain’s biggest organizations such as BT, Royal Bank Of Scotland, KPMG, The Royal Navy and Transport For London.

Kate graduated from the University of Durham with a BSc in Psychology. Before that she studied Arabic and Middle Eastern history for a year, fuelled by an interest in Middle East politics following a stay on a Kibbutz in Israel and then travelling with Bedouin tribesmen in Egypt.

Kate has been a keen traveller since her first expedition with Operation Raleigh (now Raleigh International) to Zimbabwe in 1990. She has subsequently travelled extensively throughout Africa and the Middle East, most recently visiting Lesotho, Uganda and Oman. These experiences, immersing herself within hugely disparate cultures around the globe, have continued to prove the driving force for her reporting from some of the most troubled and beleaguered areas of the world.

Kate is a highly informed and entertaining keynote and anecdotal speaker.