Ryan Chilcote has received several awards for his work. Among them: an Emmy nomination for Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast from the National Academy for Television Arts & Sciences, a New York Film Festival World Medal, a Clarion Award, and a nomination at the Prix Bayeux Competition for War Correspondents.

After graduating from the University of California in 1995, Ryan moved to Russia, where he worked for CNN and travelled extensively throughout the former Soviet Union. Ryan Chilcote’s relentless reporting has taken him from the United States to Europe, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt, South Africa, Sudan, Kenya, and Iceland.

Specialist in Russian Affairs

Ryan has been a keen observer of Russia and the former Soviet Union since he arrived at a Soviet high school on an exchange program.

Ryan speaks fluent Russian and has reported from the region for more than twenty years. In 2007, he moved to the United Kingdom to join Bloomberg.

Business

Since the onset of the financial crisis, Ryan has devoted the majority of his attention to business.  Among his areas of interest are the oil industry, commodities, OPEC, the automotive sector, technology, currencies, monetary and fiscal policy, financial markets, Europe’s debt crisis, and Russian business.

Government

Ryan has reported extensively on some of the biggest stories of the past twenty years, including Brexit, Russia’s fallout with the West, the rise of Vladimir Putin, Darfur, Iran, Georgia’s “Rose Revolution”, as well as the wars in Chechnya, Iraq and Afghanistan.  He has conducted exclusive interviews with a number of (current and former) world leaders, including the leaders of the European Union, the United Kingdom, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Finland and Austria.