17 Facts About Stephanie Flanders

Stephanie Hope Flanders was born on 5 August 1968 and is a British economist and journalist, currently the head of Economics and Politics at Bloomberg News.

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

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

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

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

Stephanie Flanders became a speechwriter and advisor to US Treasury Secretary Lawrence H Summers in 1997, and joined The New York Times in 2001.

Stephanie Flanders contributed to the BBC News coverage of the last of the AEC Routemaster buses.

Stephanie Flanders has anchored editions of Newsnight with an economic focus.

Stephanie Flanders 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The US-based journalist Laura Stephanie Flanders is her sister, the actor Olivia Wilde is a cousin, and the writer and translator Lydia Davis is an aunt.

Stephanie Flanders is distantly related to the novelist Evelyn Waugh.