PATRICIA SZARVAS
An experienced and highly respected financial anchor, Patricia Szarvas, has
hosted a variety of shows on the CNBC Europe network for the past 10 years.
She is one of the few people in that field to also have been a member of the
London Stock Exchange and to have successfully passed the Securities and
Futures Authority examination. Being multi lingual, she files market reports in
Italian (Class CNBC, Milan) and German (Focus.com, till 2009 for N24, Berlin),
as well as her regular presenting in English for both the European, Asian and US
networks(CNBC-US,MSNBC).
She is a member of ‘the Group of 20+1’ top Financial Journalist in Germany,
responsible for judging on the ‘topic of the year’ and ‘banker of the year’ award.
She regularly hosts panels for top events such as the World Economic Forum,
Euro Finance Week, ITU and is CNBC main Car correspondent for Europe.
Critics describe her work as utmost professional, genuinely exciting, displaying
cultural sensitivity to interviewees and issues. She manages to combine know
how with her personality and warmth to a variety of different shows on the
channel, both hard news and more feature like magazine formats. As well as
being a key anchor at CNBC Europe, Patricia carried out numerous field
assignments and on sight broadcasting: covering state elections and conducting
feature interviews with political and business leaders.
She started her career as a stockbroker and private banker working for some of
the most prominent investment banks. In 1998 she made the transition to the
world of media, joining RAI (Rome, Italy). She currently lives in Frankfurt and
has a 4 year old daughter.