Jenny Scott (born 1970) is an English journalist and economist, currently an advisor to the Governor of the Bank of England.

Early life

Born in Windsor,

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, as a result of her engineer father's career the family travelled through

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and Australia. Scott was educated at a

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school, before graduating with a degree in

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

from

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...

Career

Economist

On graduation, Scott joined the

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as an economist, before joining

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in 1994. She wrote primarily in her field of expertise on economic affairs, but also spent a year in

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as a general news correspondent. She then returned to London to write the book ''The Living Economy''.

BBC

After seven years with Reuters, Scott joined

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as their economics correspondent, until May 2008. In January 2007, Scott presented five special interviews with key figures from business on '' HARDtalk'', known as ''HARDtalk Business''. She then began co-presenting ''The Weekend Business'' on Radio Five Live, as well as co-presenting the

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political magazine show '' The Daily Politics'', alongside Andrew Neil. She also occasionally presented on

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, and had a stint covering

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Bank of England

On 16 April 2008, it was announced that Scott had been appointed Director of Communications at the

, succeeding Peter Rodgers when he retired at the end of June. On 17 February 2011, the

issued a press release to say that Scott was going to be on adoption leave for a year. After being replaced as Director of Communications by fellow ex-BBC journalist

Nils Blythe Nils Blythe (born 25 February 1956) is a British journalist who worked for BBC News until 2011. He specialises in business and economics. Before launching his own PR company in 2014, he was the executive director of Communications at the Bank o ...

, Scott returned to the Bank as an Adviser to the Governor in June 2013.

Personal life

Scott is married to Michael Harlow, Deputy Chief Executive and Deputy Chief Land Registrar at Land Registry. She has two daughters, Lili Harlow and Lara Harlow. Her sister, Catherine Scott is married to Andrew McKibbin and they have two sons, Samuel McKibbin and Joseph McKibbin. Her parents are Anne Scott and Eric Scott.

References

External links

Jenny Scott biography from ''The Daily Politics''
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