Robert Peston has been the BBC’s Business Editor since February 2006. From 2002 to 2005, he was City editor and assistant editor of The Sunday Telegraph, in charge of its Business and Money sections.
Until September 2000, he was the Financial Times's Financial Editor (in charge of business and financial coverage) and a member of the FT's editorial board as an assistant editor.
At the FT, which he joined in 1991, his previous positions were Political Editor, Banking Editor and head of an investigations unit (which he founded). Peston is a past winner of the Harold Wincott Senior Financial Journalist of the Year Award (2005), the London Press Club’s Scoop of the Year Award (2005), Granada Television’s “What the Papers Say” award for investigative journalist of the year (1994) and the Wincott Young Financial Journalist of the year (1986).
He is the author of Brown’s Britain (Short Books, 2005), which was described by Sir Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics, as “a book of unusual political significance”. His new book, “Who Runs Britain?”, will be published in early 2008.