Anne McElvoy

Anne McElvoy (born 25 June 1965) is a British journalist, contributing to The Economist, London Evening Standard, and the BBC.

Early life McElvoy attended St Bede's RC Comprehensive School in Lanchester, County Durham, and read German and Philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford. While at Oxford University, she edited Cherwell, the student newspaper. She spent a year at the Humboldt University of Berlin, then in East Berlin, studying East German literature and censorship.

Career Newspapers She joined The Times in 1988 as a graduate trainee, writing frequently about 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. She was the head of Economist Radio,

Personal life She and her husband have two daughters and one son.

Publications McElvoy, Anne (1992). The Saddled Cow: East Germany's Life And Legacy. Faber and Faber Wolf, Markus and McElvoy, Anne (1997). Man Without A Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster. Jonathan Cape Ltd.