Stephanie Flanders has been Newsnight's Economics Editor since 2002.

Stephanie Flanders is a seasoned economic commentator and policy practitioner, having working for elite organisations in both the UK and in the US. She began her career as an economist at the London Business School and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She went on to become a leader writer and columnist at the FT.

She left the FT in 1997 to become speech-writer and special adviser to US Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers during the Clinton Administration, where she was involved in the management of emerging market crises in Asia, Russia and Latin America, and the reform of global economic development policy.

She left Washington in 2001 to become a correspondent at the New York Times. She subsequently served as principal editor of the United Nations' 2002 Human Development Report.

Stephanie Flanders has extensive experience chairing large public events. She is an experienced moderator for corporate events and panel discussions. She is also an expert speaker on global and domestic economic issues for both specialist and more general audiences.

She also writes regularly for the comment and features pages of the Financial Times, The Sunday Telegraph, the Observer, the Guardian and The Daily Mail.