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Susannah Streeter Age, Wikipedia, Husband, Married :: BBC Journalist

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Personal Information Summary
Name Susannah Streeter
Date of Birth / Birthday / Age / DOB / How old is Susannah Streeter Born in May 1973. As of 2024, she is around 51 years old.
Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Fiance / Partner Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.
Children / No. of Kids 3
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race White
Nationality British
Who is Susannah Streeter? For close to two decades, Susannah was an anchor of various BBC flagship news shows. She has also been a financial commentator for many years.
Wiki Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Susannah Streeter is a busy mom, former broadcast journalist and finance expert, who is juggling life like the rest of us, yet she is able to make contributions to the community through her platform as a public speaker.

Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education

  • Susannah Mary Streeter was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, in May 1973. In 1983, she was part of the play Dramarama, and in 1986 she was in Casualty, these were the start of her life in the spotlight.
  • Growing up in a close-knit family as a middle child, including two sisters, Streeter had an adventurous and determined nature, growing up. She describes her interest in drama, dancing, and performing, participating in ballet and drama clubs.
  • Susannah went to Wellsway Comprehensive School, in Keynsham, Bristol. She then attended Aston University, graduating with honours in French, Government, and Economics. She frequently speaks to students about careers in the media and finance industries.
  • Susannah was part of the HTV drama workshop on Bath Road in Bristol and became fascinated by the news crews chasing stories, so she started freelancing.
  • In 2008, she remembers covering the financial crisis, working all night to prepare a feature on the unfortunate timing of the opening of Cabot Circus. She also covered topics ranging from superfoods and their cancer-fighting anti-oxidants to the economics of family life and interviewed then-PM Tony Blair.
  • Streeter is married with three children. She is thankful for a supportive network of friends and family to help in providing care for her young school-aged children during the holidays.
  • She had a transformative French exchange at 13, which shaped her love for France. She pursued a French degree, spent a year in France during university, and has maintained a strong connection to the country throughout her life.

Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :

  • Currently, Streeter serves as the Global Financial Commentator, Head of Money and Markets for Hargreaves Lansdown, the UK’s largest retail investment platform. As a economic commentator for Hargreaves Lansdown, Susannah is recognised as the ‘Financially Fearless’ ambassador, aiding women in boosting their financial resilience. She provides insightful analysis for clients on macro-economic developments and their implications for asset allocation. Her expertise is sought by leading financial media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Financial Times, and CNBC. She regularly appears on BBC, ITV, and Global to discuss economic data.
  • She was named Money Expert of the Year for 2022 at the Headline Money awards.
  • For 17 years, from 2003 to 2020, Streeter was an anchor, corresspondent and presenter for BBC Business News, assisting her audience in gaining insight into domestic and international economic events, interviewing economists and analysts, and explaining the consumer affairs aspect of finance. She regularly hosted events on business strategies, economics and finance for corporations, entrepreneurs and remained a live broadcast journalist until 2020. At BBC, she anchored flagship daily business news programs like World Business Report and hosted shows such as Business Matters and Talking Business. Her long career at the BBC involved interviewing global CEOs, finance ministers, and international film stars.
  • Before working with BBC, Susannah worked for multiple companies as a freelance corporate host and moderator of events. Some of her accounts included energy giant TOTAL, Project Mindset, Meet the Boss, The London Business School, the legal firm Burges Salmon, and a variety of small business CEOs for up-and-coming corporations.
  • Besides, she has produced documentaries for ITV’s Meridian, focused on crime reporting and military deployments.
  • Susannah covered the 1997 General Election campaign and started her media work as an intern at Radio France International, as she is fluent in both English and French.
  • Involved in media reform’s walkout, she stated that the pension deal for BBC was “not enough, …the current offer being put on the table is not what the BBC is making out.” Herself and colleagues supported less risky investing by pension management, no capping of pensionable pay raises, and a greater focus on the people who work for BBC television.

Life Outside Work :

  • Susannah has served in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAF) with Squadron 7644 as a Squad Leader for the combat media operations unit from 1997 to 2007. She travelled extensively with the RAF, filming in Kosovo, Macedonia, Oman, and representing her division in Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Gdansk, Madrid, Maastricht, and Strasbourg.
  • Streeter maintains her connection with the RAF through working with NATO headquarters as the Vice-Chair of Communications Commission for Inter-Allied Confederation of Reserve Officers.

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