Lisa Aziz

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Lisa Aziz is one of the most experienced and popular conference facilitators and hosts around, she was once best known as one of the main anchors on SKY News has now returned to ITV West. 

Multi-award Winner

She has won the Daily Mail’s Media Personality of the Year Award at the GG2 Leadership and Diversity Awards and the Best Television News Journalist Award at the 2004 EMMA’s for her work hosting the first ever continuous live coverage of the Muslim Hajj from Mecca, Saudi Arabia for SKY News

World of Politics, Current Affairs and Business

Lisa has also presented Big Talk on BBC2, an eleven part series of half hour interviews with heavyweights from the world of politics, current affairs, business and issues related to the Asian community. At the end of 1999, she co-hosted the prestigious Asia Awards on BBC2 and in 2000 she presented the EMMA Awards for Carlton (The Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards).  More recently, Lisa presented one of the top national trophies at the Variety Club Showbusiness Awards.

Lisa's Rise in Broadcasting

Lisa had her first broadcasting experience while studying at London University for a BA (Hons) in History of Art and Religious Studies.  She made two appearances on LBC and, after completing her degree course, she joined Radio City in Liverpool. Lisa’s television career began a year later when she moved to Bristol, working with BBC TV West on their local magazine programme.  In 1985, she moved to HTV West as a news reporter/presenter on their nightly news programme.  Two years later, Lisa began co-presenting HTV’s award-winning current affairs programme The West This Week.

In 1988, Lisa moved to TV-am, starting as a senior reporter and moving to co-present the Sunday morning current affairs programme, before becoming the main daily news presenter in 1989.  Her last two years with the station saw Lisa spread her wings even further, with travel feature reports and news reports of the cyclone that hit Bangladesh.  This various list of duties culminated in Lisa winning the 1992/93 “Presenter of the Year” TRIC Award, adding to her 1989 “Asian of the Year” Award and “Achievement" Award.

After TV-am, Lisa worked for BBC World Service Television and presented Financial Times Business Daily for NBC Superchannel before joining SKY News. Lisa worked at SKY News from 1993 – 2005 and is hugely popular and experienced as a corporate presenter and host for numerous blue-chip companies around the world including, Microsoft, Accenture, Lloyds TSB, Bank of Scotland Group, Aviva, Deutsche Bank, The British Library and several Government Departments.

Lisa now lives in Bath and has two children.  She is Ambassador for the charity One Parent Families and is also on the Gala Committee of the Young Vic Theatre and is involved with The Prince’s Trust.

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