Tanya Beckett
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Tanya Louise Beckett (born July 1966) is an English TV & Radio Journalist.
She graduated from the independent Redland High School for Girls in the city of Bristol, England. She then attended Pembroke College, Oxford. After graduating with a degree in Metallurgy and gaining a Blue in fencing, Tanya did research on the properties of carbon and glass fibers for Courtaulds. Sometime after her work as a chemist, she spent the next four years working as an investment banker for Citibank in London and Commerzbank in Fankfurt.
Tanya went on to joined CNBC Europe in 1993 as a business and political reporter. She spent her career presenting business for broadcasters like NBC Europe and CNBC Europe, News Direct Radio 97.3 in London, Sky news, and CNN International. Tanya joined the BBC in June 1998. Since then she has been a presenter for programs such as BBC TWO's Working Lunch in 1998, BBC ONE's Breakfast, and The World Today on BBC One and BBC News in 2001.
On 16 September 2001, Tanya married the Hon. Edward Charles d'Olier Gibson (born 31 December 1967), and they have a son, Edward Alexander (born 6 August 2002), and a daughter, Greta Florence Hazeland (born 5 December 2005).
Tanya had moved her young family to New York while helping to present the World Business Report from an office in Time Square, but is now working on the program in London. Some of her hobbies include tennis, long distance running, and theatre. She speaks French and is fluent in German because of working in Germany. During her days on Breakfast TV Tanya was closely watched by the foot fetish community due to her habit of slipping her shoes on and off while interviewing guests.
