Mary Ann Sieghart
| Mary Ann Sieghart | |
|---|---|
| Born |
6 August 1961 Hammersmith, London, England |
| Occupation | Journalist, Broadcaster |
| Notable credit(s) |
The Times Newshour The Independent |
Mary Ann Corinna Howard Sieghart (born 6 August 1961) is an English journalist, radio presenter and former assistant editor of The Times, where she wrote columns about politics, social affairs and life in general. She has also written a weekly political column in The Independent.
On BBC Radio 4, she is an occasional presenter of Start the Week and has also presented Profile, One to One and Beyond Westminster, as well as one-off documentaries. She chairs the Social Market Foundation, an independent think tank. She is also a non-executive director of the Ofcom Content Board and two FTSE investment trusts.
Sieghart was born in Hammersmith, London in 1961, the daughter of Paul Sieghart, a human rights lawyer, campaigner, broadcaster and author, and Felicity Ann Sieghart, chairman of the National Association for Gifted Children, magistrate and later managing director of the Aldeburgh Cinema. Her older brother is William Sieghart. She attended Cobham Hall and Bedales School. She won a scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford when she was 16, and graduated with a first-class degree.
Suffering from the medical condition prosopagnosia (face blindness), she and several members of her family struggle to recognise faces.
After Oxford, Sieghart joined The Financial Times, where she became Eurobond Correspondent and then a Lex columnist. She spent a summer in 1984 working for The Washington Post, as the Laurence Stern Fellow. From the FT, she was recruited to be City Editor of Today newspaper at its launch in 1986. When it was taken over by Tiny Rowland, she moved to The Economist to be Political Correspondent. She also presented The World This Week on Channel 4.
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