- Andrew Gowers
Andrew Gowers (1957 - ) was appointed editor of the "
Financial Times " in October 2001. He left this post in November 2005 due to disagreements over strategy with the "Financial Times"' owner,Pearson PLC .In 2006 he accepted a job offer from
Lehman Brothers , the US-based globalinvestment bank , to work in corporate communications.After graduating from
Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge , Gowers began his journalistic career in 1980 when he joinedReuters as a graduate trainee. In 1981, he was appointedBrussels correspondent , and in 1982 he becameZurich correspondent."Financial Times"
He joined the "Financial Times" in 1983 on the
foreign desk in London. In 1984, he became agriculture correspondent and in 1985 he was appointedcommodities editor. Two years later, he becameMiddle East editor, in 1990 features editor, and in 1992, foreign editor. He was appointed deputy editor in 1994.Gowers co-authored a biography of
Yasser Arafat published in 1990, which was republished in an updated version in 2003.From July 1997, he spent 15 months as acting editor while the editor,
Richard Lambert , was in New York to launch the new US edition of the "Financial Times". In January 1999, Andrew Gowers was appointed founding editor of a new German-language business newspaper, "Financial Times Deutschland ", a joint venture between theFinancial Times Group and Gruner und Jahr, one of Germany's leading newspaper and magazine publishers. "FT Deutschland" launched in February 2000.post-"Financial Times"
On Friday, 2nd December 2005, he was commissioned by
Gordon Brown to lead an independent review ofintellectual property rights in the UK, known as theGowers Review of Intellectual Property . Amongst other things, this review was set up to consider the implications of extending the copyright on sound recordings in the UK.In March 2006, he was appointed head of corporate communications, advertising and brand & marketing strategy for Lehman Brothers in Europe.
He has recently published the "Gowers Review". He is married with two children.
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