Opening comments by session facilitator

Emma Alberici is the presenter of ABC1’s Lateline Program. Prior to taking up her latest role, Emma spent four years as the Europe Correspondent for the ABC, based in the UK.

She arrived in London just as Lehmann Bros was collapsing and as the world began questioning every accepted orthodoxy attaching to global financial markets. For someone who had spent most of the previous two decades as a business and finance journalist, it was a case of right place, right time.

Emma worked at the Nine Network and did her cadetship at News Limited’s Herald Sun Newspaper.

The daughter of a greengrocer, born and raised in Melbourne by migrant Italian parents, Emma has been a finalist three times in the Walkley Awards for journalistic excellence.

She is the author of three editions of The Small Business Book. Emma is sought after by corporate Australia for her business, economics and finance expertise. She is an outstanding interviewer, facilitator and MC and is in high demand for corporate videos.