Anne McElvoy is the Executive Editor and Head of Podcasting at POLITICO and host of the award-winning The Economist Asks podcast. She has been deputy editor of The Spectator, associate editor of The Independent, executive editor of the Evening Standard, and Executive Editor for Strategy at The Economist.
She is the author of The Saddled Cow: East Germany's Life And Legacy, and co-authored Markus Wolf's best-selling memoir Man Without A Face: The Autobiography Of Communism's Greatest Spymaster.