Tanya Beckett

Infobox journalist
name = Tanya Beckett


caption =
birthname = Tanya Louise Beckett
birth_date = birth year and age|1966|df=yes
birth_place = England
occupation = Chemist, Investment Banker, Journalist, Presenter, Newsreader
spouse = Hon. Edward Charles d'Olier Gibson (16 September, 2001 - present)
ethnic = English
credits = CNBC Europe, NBC Europe, News Direct Radio 97.3, Sky News, CNN International, BBC News, "Working Lunch," "BBC Breakfast," "The World Today," BBC News Channel.

Tanya Louise Beckett (born July 1966) is an English TV & Radio journalist.

Beckett graduated from the independent Redland High School for Girls in the city of Bristol, England. She then attended Pembroke College, Oxford.

After graduating with a degree in Metallurgy and gaining a Blue in fencing, Beckett undertook research on the properties of carbon and glass fibers for Courtaulds. Sometime after her work as a chemist, she spent the next four years working as an investment banker for Citibank in London and Commerzbank in Frankfurt, Germany - she resultantly speaks fluent German and French.

After training as a journalist, Beckett joined CNBC Europe in 1993 as a business and political reporter. She spent her career presenting business for broadcasters including NBC Europe and CNBC Europe, News Direct Radio 97.3 in London, Sky News, and CNN International. Beckett joined the BBC in June 1998. Since then she has been a presenter for programs such as BBC Two's "Working Lunch" in 1998, "BBC Breakfast," "The World Today" on BBC One and from 2001 the BBC News Channel.

On 16 September, 2001, Beckett married the Hon. Edward Charles d'Olier Gibson (born 31 December 1967), son of and heir apparent to Baron Ashbourne. The couple have a son, Edward Alexander (born 6 August, 2002), and a daughter, Greta Florence Hazeland (born 5 December, 2005).

Beckett moved her young family to New York while helping to present the "World Business Report" from an office in Time Square, but is now working on the program in London. Some of her hobbies include tennis, long distance running, and theatre.

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