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Steph McGovern

TV presenter & journalist

Steph McGovern is a BAFTA-Nominated TV presenter, award winning journalist and co-host of leading business and finance podcast, The Rest is Money, with Robert Peston. Prior to this, she was the presenter of the eponymous ’Steph’s Packed Lunch’, broadcast daily on Channel 4 until December 2023. Steph previously worked in financial journalism for over 15 years and spent eight years as part of the BBC Breakfast family, where she travelled all over the UK to cover economic and business news for the BBC and broadcast live from over 500 businesses. Whether talking to workers in factories or interviewing FTSE 100 chief executives in the studio, Steph made it her mission to find out what was going on in the real economy. She is also a mentor for young people in Teesside and regularly runs workshops for schoolchildren around the North East.