Biography
Mark Barton is a conference host, moderator and interviewer whose career in broadcasting, hosting and journalism spans more than 30 years. He joined Bloomberg as an intern in 1995 and was one of the five founders of Bloomberg Television’s European operations in London. He spent 23 years as a live news anchor as the channel grew into a global business and financial news network, broadcast to almost half a billion homes in more than 70 countries.
He anchored all of Bloomberg Television’s prime-time programmes, breaking and analysing the biggest stories in business, markets and geopolitics, including six UK general elections, six US presidential elections, the global financial crisis and Brexit. He conducted more than 20,000 interviews with world leaders, finance ministers, central bankers and chief executives, among them Shimon Peres, Gordon Brown, Jean-Claude Trichet and Bill Gates.
His reporting took him on location to the World Economic Forum in Marrakech and the FIFA presidential election in Zurich. On radio, he presented Daybreak Europe on Bloomberg Radio in the UK and US, and delivered business bulletins for NPR and LBC.
He created Battle of the Charts, a daily segment in which two journalists each had 90 seconds to make the case for the most compelling business or economic chart of the day, with the anchor picking the winner. The format was replicated across Bloomberg Television worldwide. He also launched the weekly Business of Sport show, whose 30-minute special, Inside Bayern Munich, featured Mark’s interviews with Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Xabi Alonso.
Mark left Bloomberg in August 2018 to work as a conference host, moderator and media and presentation coach. He hosts and moderates events on business, finance, politics and sustainability across Europe, the Middle East, India and the Americas. He has hosted forums alongside three UN climate summits: COP26 in Glasgow, COP28 in Dubai and COP30 in Brazil. On stage he has interviewed ministers, central bankers, chief executives and entrepreneurs, among them India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, UK Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds and Dragons’ Den investor Deborah Meaden.
His coaching began at Bloomberg, where he trained dozens of television and print journalists to communicate on air and ran weekly sessions for colleagues on business and financial markets. Today he prepares executives for media interviews and coaches teams to present with clarity and hold their audience, whether on stage, on camera or in front of clients. His approach comes from two decades of live television, where there is no second take.