Tanya Beckett is the presenter of BBC World News' World News Today: Business Edition. She has worked as a presenter for the BBC since 1998, anchoring a variety of news and business programmes across the BBC's domestic and international output including Business Breakfast, Breakfast News, Working Lunch and most recently, World Business Report.

In 2003 Tanya moved to the US, where she hosted live shows in New York and Washington, reporting on key events such as the 2004 presidential election and the Wall Street Financial scandals. She was also the New York-based presenter of World Business Report on BBC World News.

After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in Metallurgy and the Science of Materials, Tanya spent a year working for Courtaulds, researching the properties of carbon and glass fibres. She then spent the next four years working as an investment banker for Commerzbank in Frankfurt and Citibank in London.

In 1993, Tanya became a business and political reporter for CNBC Europe. She has worked for various broadcasters including NBC Europe and CNBC Europe, where she presented The Moneywheel and FT Business Tonight; Sky News as presenter of its live nightly business news programme; CNN International, reporting from the London International Financial Futures Exchange; and News Direct Radio 97.3 in London.

During her television career, Tanya also presented a 30-minute chat show for NBC Europe with guests from the worlds of politics, showbusiness and the arts, including Chaim Herzog, Salman Rushdie, Ian Smith and Eddie Izzard.

Tanya speaks German and French, and her hobbies include tennis, long-distance running, theatre acting and directing.