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Stephanie Flanders
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Flanders in 2011
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Stephanie Hope Flanders
5 August 1968 |
| Education | Balliol College, Oxford Harvard University |
| Occupation | Market strategist, journalist, editor, presenter |
| Title | (formerly) Economics Editor: BBC (2008–2013) |
| Parent(s) | Michael Flanders Claudia Cockburn |
Stephanie Flanders, born on August 5, 1968, is a well-known British economist and journalist. She currently leads the Economics and Politics team at Bloomberg News. Before this, she was a top market strategist for Britain and Europe at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. She also worked as the economics editor for BBC News for five years. Stephanie is the daughter of the famous British actor and singer Michael Flanders and the disability advocate Claudia Cockburn.
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Early Life and Education
Stephanie Flanders was born in 1968. Her father, Michael Flanders, passed away when she was six years old. She attended St Paul's Girls' School and then went to Balliol College, Oxford. There, she earned a top degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Later, she studied at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. She received a Master of Public Administration degree as a Kennedy Scholar.
Starting Her Career
Stephanie Flanders began her career as an economist. She worked at the London Business School and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. In 1994, she started writing for the Financial Times newspaper. She became a main writer and columnist there. In 1997, she worked as a speechwriter and advisor for U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers. She then joined The New York Times in 2001.
Working at the BBC
Newsnight Reporter
In 2002, Stephanie joined the BBC's Newsnight program. She loves cycling, and in 2005, she presented a special report on Britain's economy for Panorama. She cycled across the country for this report. She also helped with BBC News coverage about the last AEC Routemaster buses. From 2006 to 2007, she sometimes presented news shifts for BBC News. She also hosted Newsnight episodes that focused on economic topics.
In August 2007, Stephanie interviewed Conservative Party leader David Cameron on Newsnight. She asked him about his idea to give tax breaks to married couples. She questioned if people would get married just for a small amount of extra money each week.
Becoming BBC Economics Editor
In February 2008, the BBC announced that Stephanie would become their new economics editor. She took over from Evan Davis, who moved to host the Today show on BBC Radio 4. Stephanie started her new role on March 17, 2008. From June 2008 to January 2009, Hugh Pym temporarily filled in for her while she was on maternity leave.
In July 2012, she hosted a show called "Stephanomics" on BBC Radio Four. This program explored big questions about the world's economy. For example, it asked whether China or the United States would become the most important economic power. Another series of this program began in April 2013. In 2012, Stephanie also presented Masters of Money, a BBC Two documentary series. This series looked at the lives of famous economists like Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek.
In August 2012, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith complained to the BBC. He claimed that Stephanie's reports on unemployment figures favored the Labour Party. The BBC responded that they were sure their coverage was fair.
Besides her work as economics editor, Stephanie sometimes presented The Andrew Marr Show in August 2009. She also occasionally filled in as a presenter for Newsnight until she left the BBC. In 2009, she played herself in a BBC Radio play. It was based on the short story The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble. This story used a fictional setting to explain parts of modern economics.
On September 26, 2013, it was announced that Stephanie would leave the BBC. She joined J.P. Morgan Asset Management as their chief market strategist for Europe and the UK. A writer for The Guardian newspaper, Peter Preston, said that she was "an intellectual player in a vital, but often arcane, area." Robert Peston, the BBC's business editor, took over her role. Stephanie still appears on the BBC sometimes as an expert and presents programs.
In September 2017, Stephanie co-hosted two episodes of BBC Radio 4's Today program. She then joined Bloomberg News as a Senior Executive Editor for Economics. She also became the head of Bloomberg Economics.
Academic Work
Since 2008, Stephanie Flanders has been a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. On February 28, 2013, she gave the 2013 Bob Friend Memorial Lecture. This lecture took place at the University of Kent's Medway Campus in Chatham. The University of Kent’s Centre for Journalism has a scholarship named after Bob Friend.
Family Life
Stephanie Flanders is the granddaughter of British journalist Claud Cockburn and American writer Hope Hale Davis. Claud Cockburn's three sons, Alexander Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn, and Patrick Cockburn, are her uncles. The journalist Laura Flanders is her sister. The actor Olivia Wilde is her cousin, and the writer Lydia Davis is her aunt. She is also distantly related to the novelist Evelyn Waugh.
Stephanie is married to John Arlidge, who is also a journalist. He has written for newspapers like The Guardian and The Observer. They have a son, born in 2006, and a daughter, born in 2008.
In June 2007, Stephanie presented a BBC Radio 4 program called Archive Hour. This show was about her father's career and was titled Flanders on Flanders.
