Silvia Wadhwa

Silvia Wadhwa was born in 1959 in Hagen, Germany. She pursued her education in Journalism and Economics in London. Her career in financial journalism spans over 30 years, during which she has reported on monetary policy, fiscal policy, banking, and politics for various prominent media outlets. Her early career included training and working as a correspondent for news agencies such as VWD and Reuters. At Reuters, she began covering monetary policy and global currency fluctuations during the “Big Bang” era. She then transitioned to print journalism, working for the German business daily “Handelsblatt,” before moving into television with the European Business Channel in Switzerland.

Wadhwa made a brief return to agency journalism to establish Bloomberg’s first news operation in Germany. Following this, she dedicated her career to television, working for Reuters Financial TV and European Business News. For two decades, she served as the Chief Financial Correspondent for CNBC, a global business network. During her tenure at CNBC Europe in Frankfurt, she reported daily from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, notably on programs like “European Closing Bell” and “Europe Tonight.” She also provided German-language business news updates for N24 news channel.

Her role at CNBC also included serving as the network’s European Central Bank correspondent, where she reported from the bank’s headquarters on interest rate decision days and attended subsequent press conferences. From 2003 to 2007, she co-presented “Frankfurt Closing Bell” and its successor “Europe Tonight.” In December 2007, she launched her blog, ‘€urocentric,’ for CNBC.com. Wadhwa is recognized for her direct interviewing style and her expertise on the European Central Bank, the Euro crisis, and monetary policy. She has frequently been invited as a guest on prime-time talk shows for ARD, ZDF, and BBC.