Robert Peston

The Honourable Robert Peston
Peston in February 2014
Born	(1960-04-25) 25 April 1960 (age 64)
Education	Balliol College, Oxford Université Libre de Bruxelles
Occupations	Journalist presenter author
Spouse	Siân Busby ​ ​ (m. 1998; died 2012)​
Children	1
Relatives	Maurice Peston (father)
Robert Peston's voice Recorded November 2007 from the BBC Radio 4 programme File on 4

Robert James Kenneth Peston (born 25 April 1960) is an English journalist, presenter, and author. He is the Political Editor of ITV News and host of the weekly political discussion show Peston (previously Peston on Sunday) alongside ITV News Deputy Political Editor Anushka Asthana. From 2006 until 2014, he was the Business Editor of BBC News and its Economics Editor from 2014 to 2015. He became known to the wider public with his reporting on the 2007–2008 financial crisis, especially with his exclusive information on the Northern Rock crisis.^[1] He is the founder of the education charity Speakers for Schools.