Konnie Huq on how talking to teens about their future is vital

An economics degree from the University of Cambridge isn’t the most necessary qualification to work as a Blue Peter presenter, but having such a feather in her cap never did Konnie Huq any harm.

Despite having no idea of which career she wanted to pursue when she was at school, and having diverse passions for both sciences and performing arts, after finishing her degree, Huq landed a job presenting the iconic children’s TV show and eventually became its longest-serving female presenter.

“When I was taking my , I had no clue, really, about what I wanted to do,” she recalls. “And even my degree choice was sort of, and I didn’t want to go into sciences as a career, so I just chose to do economics. I’d never done economics before, I didn’t really even know what economics was!”