Laura Kuenssberg
Laura Juliet Kuenssberg (born 8 August 1976) is a British journalist. In July 2015 she succeeded Nick Robinson as Political Editor of BBC News, the first woman to hold the position
Kuenssberg was born in Italy in 1976 to Nick and Sally Kuenssberg. Her father is a businessman and her mother worked in children's services and received a CBE for this in the 2000 New Year Honours. Her paternal grandfather was Ekkehard von Kuenssberg, a co-founder, and president of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Her maternal grandfather was the Scottish high court judge Lord Robertson and his brother Sir James Wilson Robertson was the last British Governor-General of Nigeria. Her older brother David is executive director of finance and resources at Brighton and Hove City Council. Her older sister Joanna Kuenssberg is a former diplomat, having served as high commissioner to Mozambique
Her father worked in Italy for British company Coats Viyella for a number of years. Kuenssberg grew up in Glasgow, with her brother and sister, and attended Laurel Bank School, a private girls' school.
Kuenssberg studied history at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a journalism course at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where she worked on an NBC News political programme.
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