Emily Maitlis

Emily Maitlis
Maitlis in April 2010
Born	Emily Maitlis (1970-09-06) 6 September 1970 (age 46) Canada
Education	King Edward VII School Queens' College, Cambridge
Occupation	Journalist, newsreader
Notable credit(s)	BBC News Newsnight BBC News at Five BBC News at One
Spouse(s)	Mark Gwynne
Children	2

Emily Maitlis (born 6 September 1970) is a British journalist and newsreader for the BBC. She presents news programming across the national television channels of the BBC, including Newsnight and bulletins on BBC One and the BBC News Channel. In January 2014, she became acting political editor of Newsnight until the maternity leave of Allegra Stratton ended later that year.

Maitlis was born to British parents in Canada but raised in Sheffield, where she was educated at the King Edward VII School. Her first occupation was as a trainee hairdresser. A Cambridge University graduate who studied at Queens' College, she speaks fluent Spanish, Italian and French, as well as some Mandarin. Prior to working in news, she was a documentary maker in Cambodia and China. She worked for the NBC network and was based in Hong Kong.

Previously, she spent six years with NBC Asia, initially as a business reporter creating documentaries, and then as a presenter in Hong Kong covering the collapse of the tiger economies in 1997. She also covered the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong with Jon Snow for Channel 4. She then moved to Sky News in the UK as a business correspondent, and then to BBC London News when the programme was relaunched in 2001. During 2005, Maitlis appeared as the question-master on the game show The National Lottery: Come And Have A Go. She has also presented BBC Breakfast, and from May 2006 until July 2007, she presented STORYFix on BBC News, a light-hearted look at the week's news set to up-beat music.