Hugh Pym is a British journalist and author. A financial and political journalist by origin, he currently works for BBC News as its Health Editor.

Hugh will talk to us about some of the insights he has gained into healthcare in the UK whilst being Health Editor at the BBC, based not only on the wide role involved but also on the personal conversations that he has had with so many top people in politics, economics, health and the BBC itself. He will be open to wide-ranging questions about health, politics, finance etc.

Hugh read PPE at Christ Church, Oxford. He began his career at Viking Radio in Hull and was a BBC Radio journalist from 1986 to 1987. After spells at Channel 4, ITN, British Sky Broadcasting and Sky, he rejoined the BBC in 2001.

He was an economics correspondent until 2008, then Acting Economics Editor, then Chief Economics Correspondent.

He was appointed Health Editor in 2014. He was the recipient of the British Journalism Review Charles Wheeler award in recognition of his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recently, Hugh was appointed to the Oxford Alumni Board.

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