Robert Peston

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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