Andrew Knight
Andrew Knight was educated at Ampleforth College and Balliol College, Oxford (MA, Modern History). Mr Knight worked at the City of London merchant bankers, J. Henry Schroder Wagg, from 1961 to 1963 and the Investors Chronicle from 1964 until 1966.He joined The Economist in 1966 on the international business and investment sections. From March 1968 to April 1970 he served in the Washington offices of the paper before returning to Europe to establish its European section and, in 1973, its offices in Brussels.
Mr Knight was Editor of The Economist from October 1974 until 1986; he was named International Editor of the Year by World Press Review in June 1981. He was Chief Executive and Editor in Chief of the London Daily Telegraph group from January 1986 until October 1989.
In March 1990, Mr Knight joined News International plc as Chairman, retiring in June 1994. He was appointed a Director of News Corporation Limited on 31st January 1991 and became a non-executive Director in 1994.
Mr Knight is a director of the Rothschild Investment Trust (RITCP); Chairman of the Jerwood Charity and Shipston Home Nursing; a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre of Economic Policy Research at Stanford University, California; a member of the Advisory Council of the Institute of International Studies, Stanford University; Governor (and member of the Council of Management) of the Ditchley Foundation; Chairman of the Harlech Scholars’ Trust; a Director of the Kirov Opera and Ballet (London).
He was also formerly Chairman of the Ballet Rambert; Trustee of the Victoria & Albert Museum; Governor of Imperial College of Science & Technology; Council member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House); member of the Board of Overseers at the Hoover Institution, Stanford; member of the Steering Committee, Bilderberg Metings; Council member of Templeton College, Oxford; non-executive Director of Reuters Holdings plc and of Tandem Computers Inc.
