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Anne McElvoy | |
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.jpg) McElvoy at theHorasis Global Meeting in 2019 | |
| Born | (1965-06-25)25 June 1965 (age 60) County Durham, England[1] |
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| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Alexander McElvoy Mary Margaret Bartley/McElvoy |
Anne McElvoy (born 25 June 1965) is a British journalist, contributing toThe Economist, LondonEvening Standard, and theBBC.[2]
McElvoy attendedSt Bede's RC Comprehensive School inLanchester, County Durham,[3] and read German and Philosophy atWadham College, Oxford.[4] While atOxford University, she editedCherwell, the student newspaper.[5] She spent a year at theHumboldt University of Berlin, then inEast Berlin, studyingEast German literature and censorship.[6] She and her husband have two daughters and one son.[7]
She joinedThe Times in 1988 as a graduate trainee, writing frequently about the dissolution ofeastern Europe, and later reporting from Moscow. In 1995, she became deputy editor ofThe Spectator,[8] as well as being a columnist on its sister publication,The Daily Telegraph.[2]
In 1997, McElvoy became associate editor ofThe Independent. In 2002 she moved to theEvening Standard as executive editor remaining until 2009, though she still contributes a weekly political column. In 2009 she joinedThe Economist. She wroteThe Saddled Cow: East Germany's Life And Legacy, and is the co-author ofMarkus Wolf's best-selling memoirMan Without A Face: The Autobiography Of Communism's Greatest Spymaster.
She has been a regular presenter of theBBC Radio 3 late-night discussion programme since 2009, initially onNight Waves, and then its successor programme,Free Thinking. She has also appeared on BBC2'sNewsnight Review, contributes toBBC Radio 4'sThe Moral Maze as well as presentingAcross the Red Line, bringing two figures on opposing sides of a debate together with conflict resolution experts to listen to each other.[2][9] She was the head ofEconomist Radio,[2] and subsequently joinedPolitico as Executive Editor - Head of Audio in February 2023.[10]
