Andrea Byrne
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Andrea Byrne is one of the faces of ITV News. She anchors the BAFTA award-winning daily news programme Wales at Six, as well as ITV’s national bulletins. This has included ITV Weekend News, Lunchtime News, Evening News and News at Ten. Prince Harry and David Cameron are among the many high-profile names she has interviewed.
Andrea also presents the current affairs programme Wales This Week and writes a regular column on motherhood for Cardiff Life magazine. She is an Ambassador for ‘Women in Wales’ and ‘The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme’ and a Trustee for the organ donation charity, ‘Believe’.
Andrea is married to Wales and Lions legend Lee Byrne. Recently, they spoke publicly about their long fertility journey to have their daughter, Jemima which led to Andrea launching a fertility podcast called ‘Making Babies’, to encourage awareness and help people feel less isolated.
She is passionate about wellbeing and pioneered the introduction of Mental Health First Aiders in ITV’s newsrooms. Away from the newsroom, she is a keen yogi, a novice stand-up paddle-boarder and a budding novelist!
Andrea is an experienced host, speaker and moderator at a range of conferences, award ceremonies and dinners.
TEDx Talk on Fertility
Showreel
Womenspire 2020
Event Testimonials
Andrea is an inspiring speaker, who engages her audiences through being authentic, articulate and compelling. She captivated the room when delivering a keynote speech at one of our Women in PR Cymru events. The stories she told about her career experiences, and her personal reflections, were both honest and entertaining. We received fantastic feedback from delegates who were all totally drawn to her warmth and approachable style.
Crime investigator – News Reader – Journalist – mother – wife and ITV wales Newsreader – Andrea provides a wonderful Insight into the world of crimes and current affairs . Are used Andrea for a lunchtime event and an after dinner speaker for the rugby club so whoever is managing to cross the spectrum from 60+ ladies who were meeting at lunch And also after dinner – Andrea got a wonderful reception from both & I will definitely book amber again when I’m next back in the chair!
Andrea spoke at the first Women in PR Cymru event, at an Inaugural Media lunch and she was fantastic.
She talked candidly about her career as a broadcast journalist, sharing stories and talking about the importance of honest and truthful reporting. We had great feedback from the audience about Andrea’s speech including how she was feeling about her return to work as a first time mum. Women in PR Cymru cannot thank Andrea enough for setting the tone for our future events and we would have her back without hesitation. The ultimate professional and a true advocate for Women in PR.
I had the privilege of working with Andrea in developing local TV News and “live”magazine shows, Andrea is a first class presenter and I knew that we were always going to be a small stepping stone in the career of someone so talented.
The Institute of Directors (IoD) in Wales’ annual “flagship” event is our awards ceremony which typically sees over 400 business leaders attending to celebrate the achievements of Directors in all sectors from all parts of Wales.
Andrea has hosted this prestigious event on many occasions with absolute professionalism, style and panache. It is always a joy to work with her!
Andrea is a fantastic host. She has co-presented the RCN Wales Nurse of The Year on an annual basis in Cardiff City Hall. This is a Wales-wide high profile event and she has been instrumental in ensuring a professional and engaging atmosphere. Everyone enjoys this celebratory event – so much so that she has also hosted the RCN Leadership event where Nurse leaders from across Wales come together to debate serious and contentious issues alongside innovation. Andrea manages to keep the audience and presenters engaged. Andrea is the consummate professional presenter – full of humour and compassion …. loved having her at our events.
Andrea has worked for me on a number of awards events and has always done a great job and is a joy to work with. Always professional but has time for everyone on the night and I would not hesitate to recommend her if you are looking for any awards hosts for your events.
I’ve been fortunate enough to work with Andrea in a variety of different roles. I would very much recommend her highly engaging and professional approach to all areas of her work but specifically event compering.
Andrea’s willingness to help, plus her understanding of our background in setting up Trust PA in memory of our son Paul-Andre (P-A) has been really heart warming for us.
Andrea’s figurative support and calm professionalism has enabled us to reach a wider audience. This has also raised vital funds to support & continue our quest; to help fund the development of effective treatments. Thank you Andrea, we really value your kindness, generous personal support and valuable contribution.
Andrea Byrne was a moderator and facilitator for our online Early Career Researcher networking and skills event. Over two days she hosted panels, moderated Q&A sessions, and introduced guest speakers. She was able to create the perfect informal, yet informative and efficient, atmosphere and met all our requests and changes with absolute professionalism. We would love to work with Andrea again in the future.
FSB Wales has booked Andrea for the last few years to host our Wales final of the Celebrating Small Business Awards. Some of the winners are very nervous about speaking in front of an audience, but Andrea is the perfect professional host and has the rare ability to put the winners at ease when interviewing them on stage. This ensures that the winners and the audience get the most from the experience. When things occasionally go wrong with last minute changes or technology challenges, Andrea remains serene and deals with these challenges using good humour and empathy, ensuring that the smooth flow of the event continues uninterrupted. I have no hesitation in recommending Andrea as the perfect event host!
Andrea is an impressive facilitator and interviewer. She hosted the CIPFA Cymru annual conference with charm and warmth, and expertly ensured smooth transitions between the sessions. An absolute professional, who was able to quickly relate to the topics and themes with skill, and engage effectively with speakers and delegates alike. She really was the linchpin for the day! Diolch yn fawr iawn Andrea!”
It was great having Andrea hosting our conference. We have received good feedback and I thoroughly enjoyed working with her.
