Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis PC (2009) (born Andreas Adonis, 22 February 1963) is a British academic, educationalist, journalist and Labour Life Peer, who served in HM Government as Secretary of State for Transport between 2009 to 2010. Adonis was first appointed to the Labour Government following the 2005 general election, as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Children, Schools and Families. He previously served, under the premiership of Tony Blair, as an education and constitution policy advisor at the Number 10 Policy Unit from 1998 to 2005, heading it from 2001 to 2003. Before joining the Government, Adonis was an academic at the University of Oxford, then a journalist at the Financial Times and The...