Emily Maitlis

Emily Maitlis (born 6 September 1970) is a Canadian-born British journalist and newsreader, currently employed by the BBC.

Emily Maitlis is one of the BBCs best known newscasters, presenting regular news slots on BBC1, BBC2 and News 24, as well as fronting 'Newsnight'. She has also written for publications such as 'The Guardian and 'The Spectator', for whom she is now a Contributing Editor.

She has worked alongside the legendary David Dimbleby to host Election coverage specials and the Budget and was recently nominated for an RTS award. She previously worked at BBC London news, London's flagship news programme on BBC1. Before joining the BBC she worked for Sky News in this country, and for NBC News in Hong Kong, as a business correspondent. Prior to news reading, Emily was a documentary maker in land-mined northern Cambodia and the paddy fields in the remote corners of China.

She spent six years in the Far East reporting from around the region on longer format pieces from not only China but Cambodia and the Philippines. She even made a documentary for BBC Radio 1 on the clubbing scene in Hong Kong, after the handover of the colony to China. She then covered the handover itself, on location with the Channel 4 team.

A languages graduate from Queen's College, Cambridge, Emily speaks French, Spanish and Italian but contrary to popular belief her Mandarin Chinese is a bit ropey.

Originally from Canada, Emily now lives in West London with her husband and two sons, Milo and Max.