Robyn Curnow is a speaker, author and award-winning broadcaster. She is the host and founder of the Searching for America podcast where she unpacks American culture and politics from her outsider perspective as a South African based in the American South.

She spent over two decades at CNN, anchoring shows on both CNN USA and CNN International. She was also CNN’s Africa correspondent based in Johannesburg and a reporter and anchor based at CNN’s London bureau covering Europe.

Curnow has interviewed Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu as well as U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and First Lady Michelle Obama.

Curnow has reported from across the world. She was in Havana for President Obama’s historic visit and returned to Cuba to report on Fidel Castro’s death for CNN. She covered the presidency’s of President’s Trump, Biden and Obama from the US and reported from the Vatican from the funeral for Pope John Paul II.

She has earned multiple accolades, including a Royal Television Society Breaking news award and a duPont Columbia award, and has been nominated for three Emmy awards, with her CNN colleagues.

She has a Master’s degree in International Relations from Cambridge University. She was a Chevening Scholar, based at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

She is repped by CAA.

RECENT SPEAKING EVENTS

Curnow has worked closely with the Prince Albert Foundation in Monaco in 2025 as well as in Philadelphia in 2023. She hosted two Blue Economy events in the principality in conjunction with His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Monaco where she was the Master of Ceremony as well as a panel moderator over several days of talks. She introduced His Royal Highness Prince William as well as world leaders such as French President Emmanuel Macron. There were 1800 attendees, 150 heads speakers and 6 Heads of State.

Curnow will be the keynote speaker at the annual Digital Media Licensing Association annual gathering in Atlanta, Georgia in October 2025. She will talk about her career and the future of journalism, media ethics and trust in a world of disinformation and AI.

Curnow has hosted or spoken at events across the world and in the US; at the Lincoln Centre in New York, the Swedish Royal Palace in Stockholm, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Cape Town Convention Centre, the United Nations in New York as well as various World Economic Forum events.

Her keynote addresses include insightful reflections on the changing media landscape, how to detox from news, the benefits and challenges of Artificial Intelligence for the future of journalism.