Andrew Neil

Andrew Neil is a publisher, broadcaster, speaker and company chairman working out of London, New York, Dubai and the Côte d’Azur. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including Broadcaster of the Year by the London Press Club in 2020.

During his 25 years with the BBC Andrew presented a variety of live political shows, from The Andrew Neil Show to Politics Live. His final major broadcast for the BBC was to anchor BBC TV’s 10-hour global coverage of the 2020 US election results. Andrew left the BBC in September 2020 to be Chairman and lead presenter of GB News. He left GBN shortly after its launch in June 2021, citing irreconcilable differences about the direShorthandDashboardction of the channel with the Board and CEO.

Andrew is Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Press Holdings Media Group, publishers of The Spectator, Spectator Australia, Spectator USA and Apollo, the world-renowned art magazine. In recent years he has been chairman of ITP, the biggest magazine publisher in the Gulf, based in Dubai.

During his career, Andrew has been a House of Commons political correspondent in London, White House correspondent in Washington DC and Wall Street correspondent in New York – all for The Economist. He was made British Editor of The Economist in 1982. The following year he became Editor of The Sunday Times. While still editing The Sunday Times he also served as Executive Chairman of Sky Television, which he launched in 1989 as Britain’s first multi-channel satellite TV platform. In 1996 Macmillan published his autobiography, Full Disclosure, on his Sunday Times and Sky TV years.