Evan Davis (journalist)
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Evan Harold Davis (born April 8, 1962 in Ashtead, Surrey) is a British economist and journalist; he has been the BBC's economics editor since October 2001, replacing Peter Jay.
He attended The Ashcombe School, Dorking, and later Davis studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St John's College, Oxford from 1981 to 1984 and obtained an MPA at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Whilst at Oxford University, Davis edited Cherwell, the student magazine.
Before joining the BBC as an economics correspondent in 1993, he worked as an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1986 to 1988 and again in 1992 to 1993. Between 1988 and 1992 he worked at the London Business School. He worked as economics editor on BBC Two's Newsnight programme from 1997 to 2001.
In 1998 Davis released a book, Public Spending, published by Penguin. In it he argued for the privatisation of public services as a means to increase efficiency.
Since becoming the BBC's economics editor Davis has been responsible for reporting and analysing economic developments on a range of programmes on BBC radio and television, particularly the Ten O'Clock News. He also has a role in shaping the extensive BBC coverage of economics across all the corporation's outputs, including online.
Currently, Evan writes a Blog for the BBC Website [1] entitled Evanomics[2] in which he "attempts to understand the real world, using the tool kit of economics." Subjects he has discussed include Road Pricing, Care for the Elderly, Gordon Brown's Budget and how to choose wine.
Evan has won several awards including the Work Foundation's Broadcast Journalist of the Year award in 1998, 2001 and 2003, and the Harold Wincott Business Broadcaster of the Year award in 2002.
He has made several appearances on the quiz show, Have I Got News For You, and presents Dragons' Den on BBC Two.
In 2005, he was one of a handful of BBC personalities who broke strike picket lines. BBC staff were striking over announced job cuts [3].
Openly gay, Davis lives with Guillaume, a French landscape architect. According to reported internet gossip and rumour he has tattoos, nipple rings and, it is reputed, a Prince Albert piercing [4]. When these allegations were put to him in an interview, he neither confirmed nor denied them, humorously dubbing himself "a man of mystery".
According to Iain Lee's Good Evening on London's LBC 97.3 in April 2007 he is blind.[5]
[edit] Bibliography
- Davis, E Public Spending Harmondsworth:Penguin Books 1998 ISBN 0-14-026446-9
- Davis, E Foreword - Your Idea can Make you Rich Vermillion:Random House 2005 ISBN 0-09-190915-5
[edit] External links
- BBC Newswatch profile
- Evanomics - Davis's BBC blog
- Observer Review article 6 November 2005
