Andrew Jack

Andrew Jack has worked as a journalist for the Financial Times since 1990. He is currently global education editor at the FT. Previously, he was deputy editor of the analysis section, pharmaceuticals correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, Paris correspondent, financial correspondent, general reporter and corporate reporter. Andrew is author of the books Inside Putin’s Russia and The French Exception, as well as numerous specialist reports, and he has appeared on the BBC and other media outlets.

Andrew led FT’s coverage that won the communications award of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2011. He received the 2013 media award of the European Organisation for Rare Diseases; First Prize in the Stop TB Award for excellence in reporting for 2010; and a Kaiser Family Foundation mini-fellowship in global health reporting in 2008.

He is chair emeritus of Pushkin House, a London-based independent centre for Russian culture, and a trustee of SciDev.net, a non-profit media group covering science and development. Andrew graduated in geography from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, was the Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellow at Harvard University, and a New York City urban fellow.