Robyn Curnow is a speaker, author and award-winning broadcaster.

She spent over two decades at CNN, anchoring shows on both CNN USA and CNN International.

Previously she was CNN’s Africa correspondent based in Johannesburg and a reporter and anchor based at CNN’s London bureau covering Europe.

Curnow began her journalism career reporting during Nelson Mandela’s presidency at the South African Broadcasting Corporation.

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

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.

Curnow has covered significant global events, from U.S. presidential elections and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan to the coup in Myanmar and the death of Fidel Castro.

She has conducted interviews with world leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu as well as U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and First Lady Michelle Obama.

Her media start-up Searching For America launched just before the November 2024 Presidential Elections with a weekly podcast aimed at decoding American choices and trying to understand why the U.S.A is so polarized.