Robert peston biography

British journalist, currently ITV News Political Editor (born 1960)

For other people with similar names, see Robert Preston.

Robert James Kenneth Peston (born 25 April 1960) is an English journalist, presenter, and author.

He is the Political Editor of ITV News and host of the weekly political discussion show Peston (previously Peston on Sunday) alongside ITV News Deputy Political EditorAnushka Asthana. From 2006 until 2014, he was the Business Editor of BBC News and its Economics Editor from 2014 to 2015.

Robert peston biography

He became known to the wider public with his reporting on the 2007–2008 financial crisis, especially with his exclusive information on the Northern Rock crisis.^[1] He is the founder of the education charity Speakers for Schools.

Early life

Robert James Kenneth Peston born into a Jewish family on 25 April 1960, the son of Helen Conroy and Maurice Peston, Baron Peston (1931–2016), an economist and Labourlife peer. As the son of a life baron, h