Juanita Phillips is one of Australia’s most respected former news presenters and an accomplished MC and speaker. For 21 years, she anchored the ABC’s flagship 7pm News in Sydney, making her the public broadcaster’s longest-serving prime-time female TV news presenter. She resigned from the ABC in 2023.
Before this, she anchored CNN’s morning news and business show in London for five years and was among the first Australians to present TV news on the BBC. She has also worked for Channel Ten and Sky News, and has been a columnist and feature writer for The Bulletin magazine, News Corporation, and Fairfax. Juanita is also an author, having written a series of children’s books, The Newspaper Kids, and a best-selling memoir about juggling work and motherhood, A Pressure Cooker Saved My Life.
Over the past decade, Juanita has applied her interviewing and presenting skills as an MC, speaker, and panel moderator, specialising in business, fintech, and cyber security. Her clients include the mining and banking industries, local and state governments, and the finance and technology sector. Known for her insightful interviews with thought leaders such as Erin Brokovich, Steve Wozniak, John Howard, Julia Gillard, and Captain “Sully” Sullenberger, she is also recognised for her ability to keep complex conferences running on time—a skill honed through decades in the newsroom. Juanita’s areas of expertise include cyber security, tech innovation, politics, economics, leadership, and gender equality.
