Robert Peston

Robert Peston is business editor of the BBC. From 2002 to 2005, he was City editor and assistant editor of the Sunday Telegraph, in charge of its Business and Money sections. Until September 2000 he was the Financial Times's financial editor (in charge of all business and financial coverage) and a member of the FT's editorial board as an assistant editor. At the FT, which he joined in 1991, his previous positions were political editor, banking editor and head of an investigations unit (which he founded). Peston is a past winner of the Harold Wincott Senior Financial Journalist of the Year Award (2005), the London Press Club's Scoop of the Year Award (2005), Granada Television's ‘What the Papers Say' award for investigative journalist of the year (1994) and the Wincott Young Financial Journalist of the year (1986). He is the author of Brown's Britain (2005).