Anne McElvoy

Anne McElvoy (born 25 June 1965) is a British journalist, contributing to The Economist, London Evening Standard, and the BBC.[2]

Anne McElvoy
McElvoy at the Horasis Global Meeting in 2019
Born (1965-06-25) 25 June 1965
County Durham, England[1]
NationalityBritish
EducationSt Bede's Catholic School, Lanchest
Alma mater
Occupation
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1994)​
ChildrenBenjamin Ivens, Gabriel Ivens and Isolde Ivens
Parent(s)Alexander McElvoy
Mary Margaret Bartley/McElvoy

Early life

McElvoy attended St Bede's RC Comprehensive School in Lanchester, County Durham, and read German and Philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford. While at Oxford University, she edited Cherwell, the student newspaper. She spent a year at the Humboldt University of Berlin, then in East Berlin, studying East German literature and censorship.

Career

Newspapers

She joined The Times in 1988 as a graduate trainee, writing frequently about the dissolution of eastern Europe, and later reporting from Moscow. In 1995 she became deputy editor of The Spectator,[3] as well as being a columnist on its sister publication, The Daily Telegraph.[2]

McElvoy at the Horasis Global Meeting in 2017

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 wrote The Saddled Cow: East Germany's Life And Legacy, and is the co-author of Markus Wolf's best-selling memoir Man Without A Face: The Autobiography Of Communism's Greatest Spymaster.

Broadcasting

She has been a regular presenter of the BBC Radio 3 late-night discussion programme since 2009, initially on Night Waves, and then its successor programme, Free Thinking. She has also appeared on BBC2's Newsnight Review, and occasionally contributes to BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze.[4] She is the head of Economist Radio.[2]

Publications
  • McElvoy, Anne (1992). The Saddled Cow: East Germany's Life And Legacy. Faber and Faber (ISBN 978-0571165919)
  • Wolf, Markus and McElvoy, Anne (1997). Man Without A Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster. Jonathan Cape Ltd. (ISBN 978-0224044981)

References
  1. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  2. "Anne McElvoy - Economist". www.mediadirectory.economist.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  3. "EdTech Europe 2014". events.bizzabo.com. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  4. "Anne McElvoy".
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