Amelia Hemphill Keynote Speaker

BBC Journalist and founding member of the BBC's "Solutions Journalism" team
Host of Fast Company's "World Changing Ideas" podcast
Climate, Tech & Innovation reporter

Amelia Hemphill's Biography

Amelia Hemphill is a presenter, podcast host and self-shooting filmmaker. As one of the founding members of the BBC’s “Solutions Journalism” team, her focus is on telling uplifting stories about people fixing problems. Solutions journalism, anchored in credible evidence, explains to the audience how and why responses are working or not working. Amelia’s international solutions reporting spans the realms of tech, innovation, international development, futurism, climate change and social justice.

She makes long and short form documentaries around the world and is the host of Fast Company’s “World Changing Ideas” podcast where she interviews CEOs, experts and thought leaders. Amelia has worked for a number of award winning teams across the BBC & World Service, including #100Women, BBC3 and People Fixing the World, with her work being regularly featured on TV, digital, radio and social media platforms.

Prior to joining the BBC, Amelia worked for Bloomberg TV in New York and was the tech and innovation correspondent for Jim Cramer’s TheStreet.com. She covered the start-up scene in New York’s ‘Silicon Alley’ and frequently reported from the New York Stock Exchange.

She has worked with multiple news and media organisations including: CNN, DW News, The Atlantic, Mail +, Planet A, Newsweek, USA TODAY, Ventures Africa and The Huffington Post. She has conducted keynote interviews, spoken on expert panels about tech, futurism and innovation and advised companies on storytelling and green initiatives.

Amelia is a graduate of Oxford University and Columbia Journalism School. She was shortlisted as one of Edinburgh International Television Festival’s ‘Ones to Watch’ 2018 and has won multiple #GreenFilm Awards for her coverage of environment + climate change innovation.

The power of storytelling

Why we need solutions journalism

ESG and investing in women

Future trends

The gender health gap

Virtual humans and AI

Climate solutions and green tech

She brings authoritative credibility as a founding member of the BBC’s Solutions Journalism team, showing leaders how credible, evidence-led storytelling can drive progress rather than amplify problems.
She translates complex global issues across technology, climate, innovation and social justice into clear, engaging narratives that help organisations understand what is working and why.
She combines frontline reporting experience from the BBC and Bloomberg with deep interviewing expertise as host of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas podcast, engaging CEOs and thought leaders on the ideas shaping the future.
She equips leaders and organisations to communicate impact with integrity, drawing on award-winning documentary work and advisory experience on storytelling and green initiatives.
She inspires audiences to think more constructively about change, innovation and responsibility by focusing on practical solutions that create measurable social and environmental value.