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'''Robert Peston''' is the [[BBC|BBC's]] Business Editor. A ‘who’s who’ report compiled for Barak Obama by US intelligence in early 2009 listed Peston amongst the UK’s most influential commentators. <ref>Hugh Muir, ‘[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/26/hugh-muir-diary There are people that not even a president should cross. Mel is one of them]’, ''Guardian'', 26 February 2009; p. 31</ref>
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'''Robert Peston''' is the [[BBC|BBC's]] Business Editor. A ‘who’s who’ report compiled for Barack Obama by US intelligence in early 2009 listed Peston amongst the UK’s most influential commentators. <ref>Hugh Muir, ‘[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/26/hugh-muir-diary There are people that not even a president should cross. Mel is one of them]’, ''Guardian'', 26 February 2009; p. 31</ref>
  
 
==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==

Revision as of 10:29, 30 June 2009

Robert Peston is the BBC's Business Editor. A ‘who’s who’ report compiled for Barack Obama by US intelligence in early 2009 listed Peston amongst the UK’s most influential commentators. [1]

Affiliations

Peston is the son of the economist and Labour peer Maurice Peston. He is friends with Roland Rudd, founder of the financial PR firm Finsbury. [2]

Notes

  1. Hugh Muir, ‘There are people that not even a president should cross. Mel is one of them’, Guardian, 26 February 2009; p. 31
  2. Ian Burrell, 'You can bank on him: Robert Peston', The Independent, 29 September 2008