Maxine Mawhinney

Maxine Mawhinney has been a journalist and broadcaster for 40 years, the last 20 as one of the BBC’s senior news anchors. As a foreign correspondent and presenter, Maxine has lived and worked across the world with BBC, ITN, Sky and GMTV among others covering the major stories of the last 4 decades including the Clinton presidency, the Oklahoma bomb, the siege at Waco Texas, the OJ Simpson trial, the aids epidemic in Thailand, and the assassination of Rajiv Ghandi. She has won numerous awards for her work. She is best known to UK viewers as an anchor on the BBC News channel, host of Dateline London and the BBC1 weekend lunchtime news presenter.

From Belfast in Northern Ireland, Maxine began her career as a newspaper reporter before moving into broadcasting with the BBC in Belfast. She was one of the few women reporters during the height of the Troubles. She still maintains strong links with Northern Ireland. A sought after speaker, Maxine frequently delivers keynotes, host events, moderates panels and has given 2 TEDx talks. Since leaving the BBC in 2017 Maxine has joined the Senior Faculty of the Karolinska Institute University Hospital in Stockholm where she runs the communications programme for senior medics. She is also a senior level media, presentation and performance trainer.