Hannah MacInnes is a broadcaster and interviewer known for insightful conversations with global changemakers. A trusted voice on both The How To Academy stage and Times Radio, she has moderated more than 3,000 conversations with guests ranging from Bill Clinton, Dame Jane Goodall and Melinda Gates to Courtney Love, Carlo Rovelli and Rory Stewart.
Hannah spent eight years at BBC Newsnight, where, as Planning Editor and Producer, her agenda-setting investigations and on-air films included headline interviews with Silvio Berlusconi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton, Helen Mirren and Mark Rylance. Today she brings the same forensic curiosity to major forums such as the Culture Summit Abu Dhabi, Blue Earth Summit and 5×15, unpacking the intersection of politics, culture and global change with clarity, warmth and wit.
A contributor to Radio Times, the Evening Standard and the TLS, Hannah also writes The Conversationist on Substack. Her Klosters Forum podcast explores solutions to environmental challenges—spanning plastic pollution, biodiversity, the built environment and The Cultural Turn — and she fronts the British Book Awards ‘Chapters, A Life In Books’ Podcast.
An endurance runner and cold-water swimmer, she lives the resilience she champions on stage.
Whether guiding a fireside chat or delivering a keynote on the craft of questioning, Hannah equips audiences to listen deeply, think critically and engage confidently with an unpredictable world.