Anne McElvoy (born 25 June 1965) is a British journalist for The Economist and Evening Standard, and a Radio 3 presenter.
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McElvoy attended St Bede's RC Comprehensive School in Lanchester, County Durham and read German and Philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford. She spent a year at Humboldt University of Berlin, then in East Berlin, studying East German literature and censorship.
She joined The Times in 1988 as a graduate trainee, heavily covering the dissolution of eastern Europe, and later reporting from Moscow. In 1995 she became Deputy Editor of The Spectator, as well as being a columnist on its sister publication, the Daily Telegraph.
In 1997 she became Associate Editor of The Independent. In 2002 she moved to the Evening Standard as Executive Editor until 2009, and also still writes a weekly political column. In 2009 she moved to The Economist.
She has been a regular presenter of the BBC Radio 3 discussion programme Night Waves since 2009, and has appeared on its BBC2 equivalent, Newsnight Review. She also occasionally appears on Radio 4's The Moral Maze
In 1994 she married Martin Ivens, also a journalist, and Deputy Editor of the Sunday Times since 1996. They have two sons and one daughter.