Andrew Gowers

Andrew Gowers was appointed editor of the Financial Times in October 2001.

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Editor - Financial Times

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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.

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Cambridge University - Reuters - Brussels - Correspondent - Zurich

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He joined the Financial Times in 1983 on the foreign desk in London. In 1984, he became agriculture correspondent and in 1985 he was appointed commodities editor. Two years later, he became Middle East editor, in 1990 features editor, and in 1992, foreign editor. He was appointed deputy editor in 1994.

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Commodities - Middle East

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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.

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Andrew Gowers is co-author of a biography of Yasser Arafat published in 1990 and republished in an updated version in 2003. He is married with two children.

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