Debi Bell-Hosking: Event Emcee
- Highlights:
- Debi connects effortlessly with audiences, creating an inclusive atmosphere that keeps attendees engaged and inspired.
- As a professional emcee, Debi ensures that transitions between speakers, sessions, and activities are smooth, maintaining momentum throughout the event.
- Travels from: Westbury, UK
- **Fee range: $500 - $5,000
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Debi Bell-Hosking is a masterful event emcee whose charisma, professionalism, and ability to engage audiences make her a standout choice for events of all scales. With years of experience in moderating, facilitating, and hosting, Debi brings energy, precision, and a personal touch to every event she leads. Her expertise in communication ensures that every moment is polished, seamless, and memorable.
This comes after years of interviewing delegates and speakers at events around Europe- from fintech payments executives, innovators and motivational speakers to world leaders and showbiz celebrities.
Debi Bell-Hosking | Event Emcee
Debi’s early work began as a young documentary maker in the townships of South Africa. Filmmaking then led her to become a producer & editor in the London Reuters TV Newsroom and onto the world stage of showbiz in Cannes and politics in Davos – leading news teams, catching great soundbites and delivering competitive coverage of events.
Now as a presenter, moderator and corporate film producer, home for Debi is with her family in the English countryside – and when Debi’s not either in front of an audience or behind a camera lens, you may find her swimming or paddle boarding in the nearest ocean or river, whatever the temperature!
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