Thought Leader Profile
Ed Butler
Presenter, BBC
Ed Butler is an award-winning BBC presenter, producer, and reporter of some 25 years' experience, who's covered business, arts, and news from around the world for both TV and radio. He has interviewed heads of state and business leaders from five continents, and has reported on conflicts from Bosnia to Iraq and the Caucasus. Most recently, he has hosted the BBC's World Service flagship business show, "Business Daily," and has produced and presented documentaries covering the Financial Crisis and the Arab Spring. Ed teaches and trains journalists, as well as reporting from the world's hotspots.
Speaker at FiRe 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022
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News for Ed Butler
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Posted on Mon Aug 24, 2026, 7:00 am
Business Daily | Are Europe and China heading for a trade war? - BBC -
Posted on Mon Jul 27, 2026, 7:00 am
Business Daily | Sierra Leone: The cocaine trail - BBC -
Posted on Mon Jul 6, 2026, 7:00 am
The African fishermen who blame Chinese trawlers for their woes - BBC -
Posted on Wed Jun 3, 2026, 7:00 am
'By the grace of God': Miners dig on as lab-grown diamonds change market - BB... -
Posted on Tue Feb 11, 2025, 8:00 am
Burkina Faso jihadist insurgency: Some Ghanaians join the fight against the m... -
Posted on Wed May 19, 2021, 7:00 am
Why video calls might be behind a rise in male cosmetic surgery - BBC -
Posted on Thu Jan 31, 2019, 8:00 am
Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail - BBC -
Posted on Thu Jul 23, 2009, 7:00 am
Programmes | Hardtalk | Ed Butler - BBC
FiRe 2022 Media
'Water Level Critical: Anticipating Changes to Our Most Important Resource'
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'Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Defense'
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FiRe 2017 Media
FiReStarters II: Five Companies Improving the World
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Computational Propaganda
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FiReStarters I: Five Companies Improving the World
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What I Learned at Yahoo
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What Is AI Telling Us? The Future of Work for Humans and Machines
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Investors Redefine Value: Impact on Public Policy and Education Content
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Hotspots: Five Views of the Future
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FiRe 2016 Media
FiReStarters II: Five Companies Improving the World
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FiReStarters I: Six Companies Improving the World
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Flow Economics: Driving Tech Companies Today
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Circadian Rhythms and the Flow of Biological Time
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Redefining Country GDP: National Business Models and IP Flows
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Bleeding-Edge Medicine: Today's Discoveries, Tomorrow's Practice
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A New Congo
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FiRe 2015 Media
FiReStarters II: Companies Improving the World
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FiReStarters I: Companies Improving the World
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Machines Learning About People: What's Next?
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Does Information Want to Be Free?
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FiRe 2014 Media
Artificial Intelligence Helping Humans: Future Research
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FiRe 2013 Media
FiReStarters II: Companies Improving the World
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Institutional Effects of Massive Increases in Data
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FiReStarters I: Companies Improving the World
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In the Wake of the Mandiant Report: China IP Theft and the World Economy
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