Education
Her family lived in the United States until she was 15, but she attended Wycombe Abbey, a boarding school in the United Kingdom.
Her family lived in the United States until she was 15, but she attended Wycombe Abbey, a boarding school in the United Kingdom.
After gaining a first class degree in History & Economics as a senior scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Somerset Webb was awarded a Daiwa scholarship and spent a year studying for a masters degree in Japanese language at the University of London"s School of Oriental and African Studies. In 1992, she moved to Japan to continue her Japanese studies and to produce business programmes for Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai, Japan"s public television station. In 1993, she became an institutional broker for Session Border Controllers Warburg in Tokyo, where she stayed for five years.
Returning to London in 1998, to work for Banque Nationale de Paris Paribas, she later became a financial writer for The Week.
Two years later, in 2000, she took on the role of launch editor for the financial weekly MoneyWeek. In 2007 she wrote her first book Love is Not Enough, a personal finance book aimed at women.
In 2011 she co-presented Superscrimpers for Channel 4.