Broadcasting since 1957, the Today programme attracts seven million listeners during its 06.00 to 09.00 weekday slot.Įvan has a knack for breaking down and explaining complex issues in business and economics in a way that can be easily understood by the average viewer, perhaps best demonstrated in his broadcasts for BBC News as well as the Evanomics blog series. Today he is best known for presenting the BBC’s reality business show, Dragons’ Den and hosting the Today programme on Radio 4, alongside veteran broadcaster John Humphrys. Like many of the country’s prominent figures from politics and journalism, he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford, gaining a First, and later undertook postgraduate studies at Harvard.įollowing a period as an economics correspondent for BBC News and economics editor of Newsnight, he became the BBC’s Economics Editor in 2001, making him the most senior economics reporter in the corporation. “By studying economics and understanding economics more I had an outlook on the world that was, you can call it narrow, you can call it overly mechanistic, but it was an outlook on the world, we want our journalists to have an outlook on the the world”.Įvan Davis has taken an unconventional path into journalism, becoming an established economist before joining the BBC as a correspondent in the 1990s. Presenter, BBC Radio 4 Today and The Bottom Line.
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