Stephanie Flanders | |
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Flanders chairing a debate at Chatham House in 2011
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Born | 5 August 1968 |
Education |
Balliol College, Oxford Harvard University |
Occupation | Chief Market Strategist, presenter |
Partner(s) | John Arlidge |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) | Michael Flanders and Claudia Cockburn |
Stephanie Hope Flanders (born 5 August 1968) is a British former broadcast journalist who was the BBC economics editor for five years. In November 2013 she left the BBC for a role as J.P. Morgan Asset Management's chief market strategist for Britain and Europe. She is the daughter of British actor and comic singer Michael Flanders and activist Claudia Cockburn.
Flanders' father, Michael Flanders, died in 1975 when she was six years old. She went to the independent St Paul's Girls' School and was a student at Balliol College, Oxford, where she obtained a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She then attended Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar.
Flanders began her career as an economist at the London Business School and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She then became a leader writer and columnist at the Financial Times from 1994. She became a speechwriter and advisor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers in 1997, and joined the New York Times in 2001.