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British personal finance journalist

Merryn Rosemary Somerset Webb (born 23 June ), is a Senior Columnist at Bloomberg writing about wealth, investing and personal finance and is a radio and television commentator on financial matters.^[1]

Life and career

She attended Wycombe Abbey, a boarding school in the UK.^[2][3] After gaining a first class degree in History & Economics as a senior scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Webb was awarded a Daiwa scholarship and spent a year studying for a master's degree in Japaneselanguage at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.

In , she moved to Japan to continue her Japanese studies and to produce business programmes for NHK, Japan's public television station.^[4]

In , she became an institutional broker for SBC Warburg in Tokyo, where she stayed for five years. Returning to London in , to work for BNP Paribas, she later became a Merryn Somerset Webb: books, biography, latest update BEQON