The well-known journalist and broadcaster Jeremy Paxman is this year’s keynote speaker at EY Malta’s annual national conference ‘Malta attractiveness survey’ to be held on 7 October. The conference, focusing on foreign investment, will feature 50 speakers, and last year attracted almost 500 delegates.
Jeremy Paxman is an award-winning journalist, author and television presenter. He spent 8 years reporting from around the world for the BBC, before becoming anchorman of the BBC’s nightly news analysis programme, Newsnight in 1989, a post he held for 25 years. He has been chairman of BBC 2’s top-rating University Challenge since 1994.
In May 2014, he anchored Channel 4's Election Night coverage. He is the author of numerous documentaries and documentary series – on the history of the British Empire, on the poet Wilfred Owen, on Victorian art, on Churchill’s funeral and on the effect of the First World War on Great Britain. His 2014 one-man show PAXO at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was a critically acclaimed sell-out.
Jeremy Paxman is an honorary fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and a Fellow by Special Election at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He also holds honorary doctorates from Leeds, Bradford and the Open University.
He is the author of ten books, including The English - Portrait of a People; The Political Animal; On Royalty; The Victorians; Empire - What Ruling the World Did to the British. Great Britain’s Great War was published in October 2013. His memoirs will be published in October, during the same week he will be in Malta for the Malta attractiveness survey event. Page 2
He is a contributing editor at the Financial Times. His charitable interests include homelessness, mental health and education. In his spare time, he goes fly-fishing and is the editor of Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life.