Last updated September 2008
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Evan Davis is a presenter of the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, a role he took up in April 2008.
He is also well-known as the presenter of the BBC Two business reality show Dragons' Den. And on Radio 4, he also presents a weekly business discussion programme, The Bottom Line.
For the six-and-a-half years prior to working on the Today programme, Evan was the BBC's Economics Editor, the most senior economics reporter in the corporation.
He was promoted to that role after working as an economics correspondent for the BBC and as economics editor of the Newsnight programme on BBC Two in the Nineties. He joined the BBC in 1993.
Evan read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St John's College, Oxford, where he was editor of the student newspaper, Cherwell.
He then went to Harvard where he obtained a Master's Degree in Public Administration.
Before becoming a broadcaster Evan worked as an economist for the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the London Business School's Centre for Business Strategy.
His book, Public Spending, was published in 1998 and he is co-author of the Penguin Dictionary Of Economics and the New Penguin Dictionary Of Business.
Evan has won numerous awards for his journalism, including the Work Foundation's Workworld Broadcast Journalist of the Year and the Harold Wincott Foundation's Business Broadcaster of the Year, each on more than one occasion.
Evan was born in 1962 in Ashtead, Surrey, and attended the Ashcombe School, Dorking.
