After Dinner Speakers: Emma Jones, Patrick Minford, Andy Crane

Emma is a writer and broadcaster. She began her Fleet Street career on the Sunday Mirror and then went on to the Mail on Sunday and the Sun, working on a broad range of assignments from hard news to undercover investigations to showbiz. In 2001 Emma was appointed editor of Britain’s best selling pop magazine Smash Hits. Emma has twice been nominated for the prestigious UK Press Gazette Young Journalist of the Year Award. Former Sun editor David Yelland described her as the brightest young female voice in Britain. After clocking up a vast amount of TV and radio credits as a pop pundit, Emma returned to the Sun last year as the youngest columnist in the newspaper’s history. She was also the youngest woman ever to appear on BBC’s "Question Time". Emma’s screen highlights include co-presenting the National TV Awards for ITV2 with Tess Daly, a successful collaboration that will be repeated again at this year’s event. From pop to politics she is regular contributor to Radio and TV and continues to write for a broad range of publications.