Peter Jay is best known as the former Economics Editor at the BBC, a position which put his finger firmly on the pulse of current economic markets and the volatile political factors affecting the world's businesses.

Educated at Oxford and a veteran of the Royal Navy, Peter served for six years in the British Treasury Department before joining the Times as Economics Editor. After a decade at the paper, he was appointed UK Ambassador to the United States.

He was Director of the Economist Intelligence Unit, 1979–83; Presenter of A Week in Politics, Channel 4, 1983–86; and Economics Editor of the BBC from 1990-2001.

 

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