Andrew Gowers – biography
Andrew Gowers joined Lehman Brothers as Head of Communications on 05 June 2006. In December 2005 he was appointed to lead an independent Review for HM Government of the UK's intellectual property regime. Andrew was Editor of the Financial Times from 2001 to 2005.
After graduating from Cambridge University, Andrew began his journalistic career in 1980 when he joined Reuters as a graduate trainee. In 1981, he was appointed Brussels correspondent and in 1982 he became Zurich correspondent.
He joined the FT in 1983 on the foreign desk in London. In 1984, he became agriculture correspondent and in 1985 he was appointed commodities editor. In 1987, he became Middle East editor, in 1990 features editor, and in 1992, foreign editor. In 1994, he was appointed deputy editor.
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 the Financial Times Group and Gruner + Jahr, one of Germany's leading newspaper and magazine publishers. FT Deutschland launched in February 2000.
Andrew Gowers is co-author of a biography of Yasser Arafat published in 1990 and republished in an updated version in 2004. He is married with two children and lives in South-East London.
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