Andrew Gowers (born 1957) was appointededitor of theFinancial Times in October 2001. He resigned from this post in November 2005 citing "strategic differences". In March 2012 he was appointed Director of External Relations at theAssociation for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME).[1]
Gowers was educated at theTrinity School of John Whitgift, anindependent school for boys inShirley in theLondon Borough of Croydon, followed byGonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
On Friday, 2 December 2005, he was commissioned byGordon 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 theUK.
In June 2006 Gowers joinedLehman Brothers in London as head of corporate communications, and stayed until the late 2008collapse of the firm — one of the key events of the2007–2008 financial crisis. In December 2008,The Times published his account of this period, in which he describes Lehman CEORichard Fuld as "almost unbearably intense" and "insulated from the day-to-day realities of the firm".[2]
In Autumn 2009, Gowers joined BP as head of media relations, replacing his predecessor Roddy Kennedy. He was responsible for handling the oil company's media response to the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. He resigned from the position at the end of 2010.[3]
Gowers is married and has two children.
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