Nationality British Role Journalist Name Anne McElvoy | Religion Roman Catholic Spouse Martin Ivens | |
Born 25 June 1965 (age 59) ( 1965-06-25 ) Alma mater Wadham College, Oxford
Humboldt University of Berlin Children Benjamin Ivens, Gabriel Ivens and Isolde Ivens Parent(s) Alexander McElvoy
Mary Margaret Bartley/McElvoy Books Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster, The Saddled Cow Education Humboldt University of Berlin, Wadham College, Oxford Similar People Shappi Khorsandi, Douglas Murray, Martin Ivens, Markus Wolf, Philip Dodd | ||
Occupation Journalist
Broadcaster |
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Anne McElvoy (born 25 June 1965) is a British journalist for The Economist and the London Evening Standard, and a BBC broadcaster.
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Early life
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McElvoy attended St Bede's RC Comprehensive School in Lanchester, County Durham, and read German and Philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford. She spent a year at Humboldt University of Berlin, then in East Berlin, studying East German literature and censorship.
Newspapers
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She joined The Times in 1988 as a graduate trainee, heavily covering the dissolution of eastern Europe, and later reporting from Moscow. In 1995 she became deputy editor of The Spectator, as well as being a columnist on its sister publication, The Daily Telegraph.
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In 1997 she became associate editor of The Independent. In 2002 she moved to the Evening Standard as executive editor remaining until 2009, though McElvoy still contributes a weekly political column. In 2009 she joined The Economist. She has also written Man Without A Face:The Autobiography Of Communism's Greatest Spymaster, Memoirs Of A Spymaster: The Man Who Waged A Secret War Against The West, and The Saddled Cow: East Germany's Life And Legacy.
Broadcasting
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She has been a regular presenter of the BBC Radio 3 discussion programme Night Waves since 2009, and has appeared on BBC2's Newsnight Review. She also occasionally contributes to BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze.
Personal life
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In 1994, McElvoy married Martin Ivens, also a journalist, who is the editor of The Sunday Times. The couple have two sons and one daughter.