BIOGRAPHY
Anne McElvoy is an expert on UK and international politics. She is currently Head of Podcasting and an Executive at Politico, where she hosts the Power Play podcast series.
Prior to this, Anne was Executive Editor of the Economist where she ran Economist Radio, the company’s audio arm, and was its global Policy Editor from 2010-16. Her ongoing policy interest is in healthcare systems and the impact of data and AI.
Anne also contributes a column to the Evening Standard and i newspapers.
A presenter of Start the Week on BBC Radio4, the Moral Maze and Free Thinking for the BBC, she is an experienced live broadcaster and series maker who often brings disagreeing voices together in her series Across the Red Line.
She has a First Class Honours Degree in German and Philosophy from Wadham College, Oxford, and studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her two books on modern Germany include an international best-seller, Memoirs of a Spymaster, Markus Wolf.
As The Times’ correspondent in East Berlin, she reported on the fall of the Berlin Wall. Subsequently she covered the Yugoslavia and Chechnya wars and was the paper’s bureau chief in Moscow during the rise of Vladimir Putin.
Anne has received the Journalist of the Year/Women in Public Life award twice. She is a member of the Global Supervisory Board at Beamtree, a health data and AI company.
Her main foreign languages are German, Russian and French.
For more information on Anne McElvoy’s keynote speaking topics and availability, contact VBQ Speakers founding agent Leo von Bülow-Quirk at leo@vbqspeakers.com.
ANNE MCELVOY: SPEAKER
Anne’s incisive commentary has earned her a reputation as one of UK’s leading current affairs commentators, with a particular focus on British politics, UK-Europe relations and global geopolitics. She is also a superb interviewer and moderator – skills she puts into practice regularly on as host of Politico’s Power Play podcast series.