Andrew Graham (academic)

Andrew Graham (born 20 June 1942 in Perranporth, Cornwall, England) is a political economist, a Director of the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian and The Observer, a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute, and Chair of the Academic Council of the Europaeum. He was formerly the Master of Balliol College, Oxford. He was also formerly Acting Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford (2012–13), and is a Rhodes Trustee.

Andrew Graham was born in Perranporth, Cornwall, and attended Truro Cathedral School and then Charterhouse. He read PPE at St Edmund Hall and graduated from Oxford University in 1964. He worked at the National Economic Development Office in the autumn of 1964 and then, from 1964 to 1966, at the Department of Economic Affairs, before becoming assistant to Thomas Balogh, economic adviser to the Cabinet When Balogh returned to Oxford, Andrew Graham became economic adviser to Harold Wilson, Prime Minister 1967–69. In 1969, at the age of 26, he was elected to a Tutorial Fellowship in Economics at Balliol. He returned to 10 Downing Street as a Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister, 1974–76. Later, from 1988–94, he was economic advisor to the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and then Leader of the Labour Party, the Rt Hon John Smith MP.