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Keynote SpeakerBarbara Serra

Journalist, TV Presenter, Documentary-maker and Author

Barbara Serra is an Italian-born British-based journalist and author who’s been presenting on Sky News since October 2023. From 2006 to 2022 Serra anchored the main European Newshour for Al Jazeera English, where she also reported from across Europe and the Middle East. In 2019 Barbara Serra was made a... Read more

Biography

Barbara Serra is an Italian-born British-based journalist and author who’s been presenting on Sky News since October 2023. From 2006 to 2022 Serra anchored the main European Newshour for Al Jazeera English, where she also reported from across Europe and the Middle East.

In 2019 Barbara Serra was made a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy by the Italian President for her journalism.

Her 2020 documentary ‘Fascism in the Family’ won gold for both the History and Current affairs categories at the New York Festivals TV and Film categories.

She writes the newsletter “News with a foreign accent” which analyses the impact of using English as the global language on what we call international news.

Popular Talks by Barbara Serra

  • European Politics and Culture
  • Bilingualism, and the challenges of being a second-language English speaker
  • International Journalism
  • Fascism, Past and Present
  • Moderator & Current Affairs