Legends Live @Citi: Maria Bartiromo
HIGHLIGHTS
- Maria Bartiromo joined Legends Live @Citi and shared her current view of the media landscape, including the impact of AI.
- As a trailblazer in financial journalism, Maria was the first person ever to report live from the NYSE floor, a moment that transformed market coverage by bringing viewers unprecedented, real-time access.
- Hosted by Citi Global Chair of Banking Leon Kalvaria, the discussion was part of the firm's ongoing global speaker series that connects audiences with leaders from different industries.
Citi Global Chair of Banking Leon Kalvaria hosted award-winning journalist Maria Bartiromo for another session of our global speaker series Legends Live @Citi.
Maria is a true icon in financial journalism who became the first person to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. During the session at Citi, she shared her unique perspective on the current media landscape in the age of AI and personal lessons on hard work and financial independence.
Maria Bartiromo, Anchor and Global Markets Editor, Fox Business Network
Maria Bartiromo has covered every major news cycle in business, policy and politics for the past three decades. In 1995, she became the first journalist to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on a daily basis. Today, this Emmy award-winning journalist has had a front row seat to global business and Washington policy and politics for three decades, interviewing the insiders, deal makers and law makers at the heart of the issues that matter to viewers.
Maria is the anchor of Fox’s Sunday morning public affairs program, Sunday Morning Futures, on Fox News Channel (10 a.m./NYT), the top-rated Sunday morning program on cable. She is also the anchor and global markets editor of Mornings with Maria (Monday to Friday 6-9 a.m./NYT) on Fox Business Network (FBN) and Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street, FBN’s weekly prime time investing program (Fridays at 7 p.m./NYT).
She has won two Emmys and a Gracie Award. In 2009, the Financial Times named Bartiromo one of the "50 Faces That Shaped the Decade." She was the first female journalist inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame, and has moderated three presidential debates.
Maria is currently on the board of trustees of The Kennedy Center, New York University (NYU) and the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) and formerly, New York City Ballet (NYCB). She is also on the advisory board of the Dubin Breast Center.
Leon Kalvaria, Global Chair of Banking, Citi
Leon Kalvaria is a member of the Client Organization Management Committee, and Citi’s Private Equity Investment Oversight Committee. Previously, Leon was Chairman of Citi’s Institutional Clients Group. Before that, he was Global Head of Consumer and Healthcare Investment Banking.
Leon joined Schroders in 1996 as Global Head of Consumer Banking, and Citigroup in 2000 following the merger of the two companies.
Prior to Schroders, Leon served as Vice Chairman and a Director of Triarc Companies, an investment company, and as Managing Director in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse First Boston. Leon was also a pioneer in the interest rate swap market at First Boston and a founding member of ISDA.
Leon has advised numerous Chief Executive Officers and Boards of Directors in some of the largest and most complex global mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and public offerings.
Leon received his BA from Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Heineken Family Council.
