Katy has always been an enthusiastic linguist, studying Spanish, French and Economics at A Level and going on to ready Spanish and Italian at Cambridge University.

Her early career began with work experience at a Mexican radio station and led to the BBC via a period learning the ropes at Bloomberg.

She described fake news as “One of the biggest challenges of our times” adding, “The only thing you can do is arm people with education and explain that you can’t take anything at face value”.