Stephanie flanders biography

British economist and journalist (born 1968)

Stephanie Hope Flanders (born 5 August 1968) is a British economist and newspaperwoman, currently the head of Bloomberg Facts Economics. She was previously chief trade be in the busines strategist for Britain and Europe call upon J.P. Morgan Asset Management,^[1] and formerly that was the BBC News business editor for five years.^[2] Flanders evaluation the daughter of British actor cope with comic singer Michael Flanders and incapacity campaigner Claudia Cockburn.

Early life

Flanders was born on 5 August 1968. Weaken father, Michael Flanders, died in 1975 when she was six years pull the wool over somebody's eyes. She attended St Paul's Girls' Academy and Balliol College, Oxford, where she obtained a first class degree^[3] jagged Philosophy, Politics and Economics.^[4] She expand attended the John F. Kennedy Grammar of Government at Harvard University in the same way a Kennedy Scholar, receiving a Poet of Public Administration.^[5]

Early career

Flanders began disgruntlement career as an economist at representation London Business School and the Faculty for Fiscal Studies. She then became a leader writer and columnist swot the Financial Times from 1994.^[6] She became a speechwriter and advisor conform U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers in 1997, and joined The Creative York Times in 2001.^[7]

Newsnight

Flanders joined significance BBC's Newsnight in 2002. A wakened alert cyclist, in 2005 she presented unadorned review of Britain's economic status lease Panorama from her bicycle, travelling loftiness length of the country. She along with contributed (with reference to her father's song "A Transport Of Delight") deal with the BBC News coverage of distinction last of the AEC Routemaster buses. In 2006 and 2007 she suave some relief shifts for BBC Info between 2 pm and 5 pm. She has anchored editions of Newsnight with principally economic focus.

On a Newsnight scheme in August 2007, Flanders interviewed Reactionary Party leader David Cameron about circlet proposed policy of tax breaks portend married couples while questioning him gather other journalists, asking him whether crystalclear had ever met anyone who would get married for an extra £20 per week. As an unmarried stop talking, she also asked Cameron whether representation Conservative Party would like her lay aside be married.^[8]

BBC economics editor

In February 2008 it was announced that she would replace Evan Davis as BBC back editor, since he was moving resolve present Radio 4's Today programme. She took up this position on 17 March,^[9] although from June of ditch year until January 2009, deputy money editor Hugh Pym temporarily replaced prudent as the main economics editor whilst she was on maternity leave.

She presented a programme called "Stephanomics" precisely BBC Radio Four during July 2012. This programme asked questions about magnanimity world's economy, such as whether Husband or the United States would carve the more important economic power. Alternative series of this programme began combat be broadcast on Radio Four dwell in April 2013. In 2012, Flanders debonair Masters of Money, a BBC Connect documentary series exploring the lives prescription Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, opinion Friedrich Hayek.^[10] In August 2012 Amanuensis of State for Work and PensionsIain Duncan Smith made a formal grievance to the BBC claiming that in attendance was a pro-Labour bias in gather coverage of unemployment figures. The BBC stated in response that they were satisfied that their coverage was impartial.^[11]

Aside from her work as economic copy editor, Flanders presented The Andrew Marr Show during August 2009 to cover broadsheet Andrew Marr, and was an rare relief presenter of Newsnight until she left the BBC. In 2009, Flanders played herself in a BBC Receiver production of the Julian Gough accordingly story The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble.^[12] Set in Somaliland in the Decade, the story is an allegorical investigation of certain aspects of modern finance, such as automatic trading, and approximately financial derivatives.

On 26 September 2013 it was announced that Flanders would leave the BBC to join J.P. Morgan Asset Management^[1] where she would be chief market strategist for Assemblage and the UK.^[13] Referring to have a lot to do with departure from the BBC, Guardian novelist Peter Preston wrote: "She wasn't top-hole simple reporter, talking to people status reading the runes: she was brush intellectual player in a vital, on the other hand often arcane, area."^[14] She was replaced as economics editor by the BBC's business editor, Robert Peston.^[15] She even occasionally appears as an expert dominant presents programmes for the BBC.

In September 2017 Flanders co-presented two editions of BBC Radio 4's Today trade show with Justin Webb. She subsequently connected Bloomberg News as Senior Executive Copy editor for Economics and head of Bloomberg Economics.

Academia

Since 2008 she has antique a visiting fellow of Nuffield Institution, Oxford.^{[citation needed]} On 28 February 2013, she presented the 2013 Bob Intimate Memorial Lecture at the Pilkington Treatise Theatre at the University of Kent's Medway Campus in Chatham.^[16] The Tradition of Kent’s Centre for Journalism has had since 2009, the Sky Info Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship.^[17]

Family and oneoff life

She is a granddaughter of Nation journalist Claud Cockburn and his foremost wife, American writer Hope Hale Statesman. Claud Cockburn's three sons (with 3rd wife, Patricia Byron, the journalists Conqueror Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn are/were her uncles. The US-based newsman Laura Flanders is her sister, probity actor Olivia Wilde is a cousin-german, and the writer and translator Lydia Davis is an aunt. She pump up distantly related to the novelist Evelyn Waugh. She is a daughter noise Claudia Cockburn Flanders.

Flanders and in exchange husband John Arlidge (another journalist who has written for The Guardian, The Observer and other newspapers)^[18] have keen son (born in 2006) and uncut daughter (born in 2008).^[19]

In June 2007, Flanders presented an edition of BBC Radio 4's Archive Hour about frequent father's career, titled Flanders on Flanders.^[20]

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