Robert Peston is the BBC's Business Editor, who has broadcast and published a series of exclusive stories about the global financial crisis and the Credit Crunch. In 2008. he won the Royal Television Society's awards for Journalist of the Year, Specialist Journalist of the Year and Scoop of the Year, the London Press Club's Business Journalist of the Year Award, the Broadcasting Press Guild's Award for Performer of the Year in a non-acting role and the Wincott Foundations awards for Broadcaster of the Year and Online Journalist of the Year. The previous year, he won the Royal Television Society's Scoop of the Year award (for his exclusive on Northern Rock seeking emergency financial help from the Bank of England) and also the Wincott Award for Business News/Current Affairs Programme of the Year. He was Journalist of the Year in the Business Journalism of the Year Awards for 2007/8. Peston has published two critically acclaimed books,Brown's Britain- a biography of the British prime minister, Gordon Brown - andWho Runs Britain?, his best-selling account of who's to blame for the economic mess we find ourselves in. His prize-winning blog can be found at www.bbc.

co.uk/robertpeston. Peston was previously theSunday Telegraph's City Editor, in charge of its Business and Money Sections, where he won the Wincott prize for financial journalism. In the 1990s, he was political editor, financial editor and head of investigations at theFinancial Times, and he won the "What the Papers Say" award for investigative journalism while at theFT. His prize-winning blog can be found at www.bbc.co.uk/robertpeston.