About Emily Maitlis
Emily Maitlis (born 6 September 1970) is a British journalist and former newsreader for the BBC who was the lead anchor of the BBC Two news and current affairs programme Newsnight from 2018 until the end of 2021. Maitlis has since been a presenter of the daily podcast The News Agents on LBC Radio. In November 2019, Maitlis carried out an hour-long interview with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (then Prince Andrew) for the BBC, in which she probed the then-prince's relationship with American convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The interview was awarded as the Interview of the Year and the Scoop of the Year, and Maitlis won the Network Presenter of the Year award at the RTS Television Journalism Awards in 2020. == Early life and education == Maitlis was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, to British Jewish parents; her paternal grandmother was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany. She is the daughter of Peter Maitlis, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield, and Marion Basco, a psychotherapist from Cambridge. Her mother studied French and Spanish at St Hugh's College, Oxford. In September 1958, her mother began teaching French at Cambridgeshire High School for Girls (since 1974 Long Road Sixth Form College). Maitlis was brought up on Park Avenue in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, with her two elder sisters, Nicky and Sally. She was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and read English at Queens' College, Cambridge.
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