Robert Peston

Financial Journalist

The son of an economist and a Labour peer, the award-winning journalist Robert Peston attended Highgate Wood Secondary School before graduating from Balliol College, Oxford. His career in journalism began in 1983 at Investors Chronicle. Since then, Peston has held various significant positions at The Independent, the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and The Sunday Times. He worked as the business editor of BBC News for eight years before becoming the economics editor. In the eye and aftermath of the financial crisis, Peston has become a particularly influential figure, writing and presenting various documentaries such as Britain’s Banks: Too Big To Save?; The Party’s Over – How The West Went Bust; and The Great Euro Crash with Robert Peston. 

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