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

She is the host and found of the Searching for America podcast where she tries to understand the USA from her outsider perspective as a South African based in the South.

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.

She is repped by CAA.