Robert Preston

HISTORY
Peston is the son of economist and later Labour peer Maurice Peston, Baron Peston of Mile End and his NHS-employee wife.
The couple believed in state education, and sent Robert to the local comprehensive school, Highgate Wood Secondary School, in Crouch End, North London.
Peston graduated from Balliol College at the University of Oxford in 1982, and then studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

He is a journalist, news and TV presenter, author for the BBC,
he is Currently the Business editor of BBC News

Previously Robert was the associate editor of The Sunday Telegraph. From April 2002 to October 2005 he was city editor and assistant editor of The Sunday Telegraph, in charge of its business and money sections.

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).