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Andrew Neil is a publisher, broadcaster and company chairman.  He has presented both The Daily Politics on BBC Two and This Week on BBC One since January 2003 and is a highly regarded keynote speaker and conference host.

Editor-in-Chief

He is a former Editor of the Sunday Times and The Scotsman and currently Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Press Holdings Media Group, publishers of The Spectator, Spectator Business, Spectator Australia, Spectator India and Apollo, the world-renowned art magazine. 

Television Presenter

Andrew currently presents four editions of the Daily Politics on BBC2 every week, the award-winning BBC1's This Week with regular guests Michael Portillo and Diane Abbott and Straight Talk with Andrew Neil on BBC News 24.

Keynote Speaker & Conference Facilitator

Working out of New York, London, Edinburgh and the South of France, Andrew is a provocative, incisive and high profile speaker from the media world. 

Early Career

Having started out as a political advisor to the Secretary of State for the Environment in Edward Heath's Government, he gained a foothold in broadcasting and began to present features for Tomorrow's World and the Today programme.

Andrew was Editor of The Sunday Times from 1983-94 and Executive Chairman of Sky Television from 1988.  Prior to working at The Sunday Times, Andrew was the UK Editor of “The Economist”.  Before leaving The Sunday Times to become freelance, Andrew moved to New York as Executive Editor of Fox News from June 1994 until early 1995. In early 1998 he also presided over the launch of a new upmarket Sunday paper “Sunday Business”.  He hosted the highest rated show on LBC, a Sunday radio talk show.

Business Consultant

As a business consultant he has been involved in European digital television developments and advising on the acquisition and development of a number of publications as well as the launch of a business daily for Asia in 1996 called “Asia Times” and a news magazine “Asia Inc”.

As well as being a versatile commentator on British and US politics and business, Andrew enjoys a ringside seat on all major developments in media and technology. 

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