Evan Davis is the Economics Editor of the BBC, a post he has held since October 2001. He contributes to some of the highest-profile news programmes on BBC radio and television, particularly the Ten O’Clock News on BBC1 and Today on Radio 4. He also presents The Bottom Line, a weekly discussion programme, on Radio 4 and Dragons Den, the BBC2 business reality show.

Evan has said about his job "Although being 'economics editor' sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay."

As editor though, Evan does have a role in shaping the BBC's coverage of economic developments in Britain and around the world, as well as day to day reporting and analysing economics news.

Before his promotion to editor, Evan worked for BBC2's Newsnight programme from 1997 to 2001 and as a general economics correspondent from 1993.

He previously worked as an economist at the Institute of Fiscal Studies and the London Business School.

Evan has won several awards, including the Work Foundation's Broadcast Journalist of the Year award in 1998, 2001 and 2003, and the Harold Wincott Business Broadcaster of the Year award in 2002.

He has written and co-written several books, most notably Public Spending, and the Penguin dictionaries of economics and of business.

He studied philosophy, politics and economics at St John's College Oxford from 1981 to 1984 and obtained a Masters of Public Administration at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

He was brought up in Surrey and went to The Ashcombe School in Dorking.