Nisha Pillai is an accomplished former news presenter with BBC World News who now specialises in moderating Panel Discussions and High Level Dialogues. Her areas of expertise span a wide range of subjects including economics, finance, and the energy sectors. 

Nisha has extensive experience moderating discussions relating to the Energy Transition: working with the UK government on COP26, the Asian Development Bank, the Norwegian government, UNIDO, the IEA and academic institutions.  

In the sphere of economics and finance, Nisha has worked with the UN Security General’s office, moderating meetings on the post-Covid financial  response. Another regular client is Deloitte, whose annual global Financial Services summit, she has frequently moderated. 

Nisha is also adept at covering health and social issues and has worked closely with several UN agencies like UNICEF, UNCTAD, UNHCR and UNAIDs to name but a few. Another ongoing client is the scientific research institute at CERN, where Nisha prepared senior scientists for media interviews before the launch of the Large Hadron Collider.  Following the discovery of the Higgs Bosun, Nisha was invited to host a three-hour long stage show on particle physics for CERN at an event to celebrate European science. 
Before branching out into international moderation, Nisha enjoyed a twenty-five year career at the BBC as a news anchor and investigative reporter. For several years, she was one of the main news anchors at BBC World News and fronted the acclaimed programme, Asia Today.  She has extensive experience of anchoring programmes during the 9/11 attacks, the Iraq and Kosovo wars and the invasion of Kabul. 

As an award-winning investigative journalist at the BBC’s  flagship current affairs programme, Panorama,  Nisha had notable investigations to her name. She was awarded the Royal Television Society’s Award for best current affairs programme for ‘The Max Factor’ - her investigation into the late media tycoon Robert Maxwell’s sprawling business empire, which was broadcast a month before his death. Nisha was also one of the first regular interviewers on Hard Talk, the BBC’s half-hour long interview programme.

Nisha received her training as a financial journalist at the Investors Chronicle  (part of the Financial Times group) and on the BBC’s Money Programme, where she reported extensively on the aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe and its implications for post-communist economies. She has an economics degree from the London School of Economics and was a graduate trainee at the investment bank, Schroders.