Profile
Lisa Burke is an experienced broadcaster having spent the bulk of her career presenting live television with Sky News, plus BBC, Channel 4, Fox News, many other Sky channels, RTE (Ireland) and RTL (Luxembourg). Her reporting has covered national and international assignments, documentaries and radio.
In Luxembourg, Lisa co-created RTL Today which has become the biggest English news platform in the country. Now, she hosts and produces a weekly chat show available on Today Radio, RTL Play and podcast (Apple and Spotify) called ‘The Lisa Burke Show’.
Lisa is in high demand as a host and moderator, covering space, finance, health, entrepreneurship, tech, science, European Institution events and many more. She is a public speaking coach, and launched the first Presenting & Debating Society at the University of Luxembourg. Additionally, Lisa is a sought-after voice-over artist.
Whilst living in Abu Dhabi for two years, Lisa wrote for The National newspaper.
Other writing includes children’s science books. Lisa has been a science consultant and author with Dorling Kindersley since 2005. She studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, gaining a double first. Her specialism was chemistry.
Lisa serves on the board for Raregivers, a Californian-based foundation supporting the care-givers of children with rare disease. Lisa also served on the Cambridge University Communications Working Group.
Lisa is a trained classical singer and pianist. She has two daughters.