Hugh Pym

photo June 2007

Hugh Pym (born 1959) is a British journalist and author. He is an instantly recognisable figure, standing at six feet seven inches tall.

Early life and education

Pym was educated at Marlborough College, followed by Christ Church, Oxford, graduating with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 1981.

Life and career

A financial and political journalist now working for the BBC, Pym was a BBC radio journalist from 1986 to 1987, then producer of Business Daily at Channel 4, 1987–1988, correspondent with ITN, 1988–1998, and a freelance broadcaster with Sky Television in 1999-2000. He was a BBC special correspondent covering Economics until 2008, when he took on the role of acting Economics Editor during the maternity leave of Stephanie Flanders. Following her return, he became the BBC's Chief Economics Correspondent, a newly created role.

Pym has published two books: What Happened? And Other Questions About the Credit Crunch (co-author with Nick Kochan), A Study Of Gordon Brown's First Year in Office as Chancellor of the Exchequer (also co-written with Nick Kochan). In the 2001 General election Pym stood as Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate in the North Wiltshire constituency.

Pym is married with three children.

He also performed the first ever live television broadcast from a submarine, for a story on the Loch Ness Monster.

Publications

• The Guinness Affair: Anatomy of a Scandal (London, Christopher Helm Publishers, 1987, ISBN 978-0747026051), with Nick Kochan
• Unit and Investment Trusts (Allied Dunbar Money Guides) (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1988, ISBN 978-0851213835)
• Gordon Brown: The First Year in Power (London, Bloomsbury, 1998, ISBN 978-0747537014), with Nick Kochan

References

• Hugh Pym at news.bbc.co.uk

External links

• Hugh Pym at the Internet Movie Database