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Stephanie Flanders (Stephanie Hope Flanders) was born on 5 August, 1968 in United Kingdom, is a British economist and journalist (born 1968). Discover Stephanie Flanders's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?

Popular As Stephanie Hope Flanders
Occupation Market strategist, journalist, editor, presenter
Age 55 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 5 August, 1968
Birthday 5 August
Birthplace N/A
Nationality United Kingdom

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1968

Stephanie Hope Flanders (born 5 August 1968) is a British economist and journalist, currently the head of Bloomberg News Economics.

She was previously chief market strategist for Britain and Europe for J.P. Morgan Asset Management, and before that was the BBC News economics editor for five years.

Flanders is the daughter of British actor and comic singer Michael Flanders and disability campaigner Claudia Cockburn.

Flanders was born on 5 August 1968.

1975

Her father, Michael Flanders, died in 1975 when she was six years old.

She attended St Paul's Girls' School and Balliol College, Oxford, where she obtained a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

She then attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, receiving a Masters of Public Administration.

Flanders began her career as an economist at the London Business School and the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

1980

Set in Somaliland in the 1980s, the story is an allegorical analysis of certain aspects of modern economics, such as automatic trading, and complex financial derivatives.

1994

She then became a leader writer and columnist at the Financial Times from 1994.

1997

She became a speechwriter and advisor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers in 1997, and joined The New York Times in 2001.

2002

Flanders joined the BBC's Newsnight in 2002.

2005

A keen cyclist, in 2005 she presented a review of Britain's economic status for Panorama from her bicycle, travelling the length of the country.

She also contributed (with reference to her father's song "A Transport Of Delight") to the BBC News coverage of the last of the AEC Routemaster buses.

2006

In 2006 and 2007 she presented some relief shifts for BBC News between 2 pm and 5 pm.

She has anchored editions of Newsnight with an economic focus.

Flanders and her husband John Arlidge (another journalist who has written for The Guardian, The Observer and other newspapers) have a son (born in 2006) and a daughter (born in 2008).

2007

On a Newsnight programme in August 2007, Flanders interrogated Conservative Party leader David Cameron about his proposed policy of tax breaks for married couples while questioning him with other journalists, asking him whether he had ever met anyone who would get married for an extra £20 per week.

As an unmarried mother, she also asked Cameron whether the Conservative Party would like her to be married.

2008

In February 2008 it was announced that she would replace Evan Davis as BBC economics editor, since he was moving to present Radio 4's Today programme.

Since 2008 she has been a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

2009

She took up this position on 17 March, although from June of that year until January 2009, deputy economics editor Hugh Pym temporarily replaced her as the main economics editor whilst she was on maternity leave.

Aside from her work as economic editor, Flanders presented The Andrew Marr Show during August 2009 to cover for Andrew Marr, and was an occasional relief presenter of Newsnight until she left the BBC.

In 2009, Flanders played herself in a BBC Radio production of the Julian Gough short story The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble.

The University of Kent’s Centre for Journalism has had since 2009, the Sky News Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship.

She is a granddaughter of British journalist Claud Cockburn and his first wife, American writer Hope Hale Davis.

Claud Cockburn's three sons (with third wife, Patricia Byron, the journalists Alexander Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn are/were her uncles. The US-based journalist Laura Flanders is her sister, the actor Olivia Wilde is a cousin, and the writer and translator Lydia Davis is an aunt. She is distantly related to the novelist Evelyn Waugh. She is a daughter of Claudia Cockburn Flanders.

2012

She presented a programme called "Stephanomics" on BBC Radio Four during July 2012.

This programme asked questions about the world's economy, such as whether China or the United States would be the more important economic power.

In 2012, Flanders presented Masters of Money, a BBC Two documentary series exploring the lives of Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek.

In August 2012 Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith made a formal complaint to the BBC claiming that there was a pro-Labour bias in her coverage of unemployment figures.

The BBC stated in response that they were satisfied that their coverage was impartial.

2013

Another series of this programme began to be broadcast on Radio Four in April 2013.

On 26 September 2013 it was announced that Flanders would leave the BBC to join J.P. Morgan Asset Management where she would be chief market strategist for Europe and the UK.

Referring to her departure from the BBC, Guardian columnist Peter Preston wrote: "She wasn't a simple reporter, talking to people and reading the runes: she was an intellectual player in a vital, but often arcane, area."

She was replaced as economics editor by the BBC's business editor, Robert Peston.

She still occasionally appears as an expert and presents programmes for the BBC.

On 28 February 2013, she presented the 2013 Bob Friend Memorial Lecture at the Pilkington Lecture Theatre at the University of Kent's Medway Campus in Chatham.

2017

In September 2017 Flanders co-presented two editions of BBC Radio 4's Today programme with Justin Webb.

She subsequently joined Bloomberg News as Senior Executive Editor for Economics and head of Bloomberg Economics.