The BBC's economics editor Stephanie Flanders is leaving the BBC to join JP Morgan Asset Management.

She has been with the BBC for 11 years, five in her current position.

Ms Flanders said she would miss the BBC and the people she had worked with, but that it was time for a new challenge.

She said her new job, as chief market strategist for the UK and Europe, would afford her more time for research and developing a deeper understanding of the markets.

She will stop working as economics editor immediately but will continue to present Start the Week on Radio 4 before taking up her post in November.

She is grand-daughter of the radical journalist Claud Cockburn, whose journalist sons Alexander Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn are uncles. The US-based journalist Laura Flanders is her sister, and the film and television actor Olivia Wilde is a cousin. The writer and translator Lydia Davis is an aunt. She is distantly related to the novelist Evelyn Waugh.

Flanders and her partner John Arlidge (another journalist who has written for The Guardian, The Observer and other newspapers[16]) have a son, born in 2006, and a daughter, born in 2008.[7] She reportedly dated Ed Balls and Ed Miliband who went on to become Shadow Chancellor and leader of the Labour Party respectively.[17]

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One big happy fucking family, innit!

He late uncle Alexander wrote for Counterpunch and is presumably spinning in his grave.

Welcome to capitalism George ! Having listen to Carlin for decades he just gets more and more bitter and cynical as years go by. Some observations are true, but the trade off is the freedoms we share....like the very free speech which allows him to stand on stage and spew whatever he wishes. In a communist/socialist dictatorship Carlin would have never seen his 21st birthday, a gulag or firing squad