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Lord Adonis

The Right Honourable
The Lord Adonis
PC
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Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission
Assumed office
5 October 2015
Appointed by George Osborne
Preceded by Commission established
Secretary of State for Transport
In office
5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by Geoff Hoon
Succeeded by Philip Hammond
Minister of State for Transport
In office
3 October 2008 – 5 June 2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by Rosie Winterton
Succeeded by Sadiq Khan
Minister of State for Education
In office
11 May 2005 – 3 October 2008
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
Preceded by Stephen Timms
Succeeded by Jim Knight
Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit
In office
2001–2005
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by David Miliband
Succeeded by Matthew Taylor
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
16 May 2005
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born Andreas Adonis
(1963-02-22) 22 February 1963 (age 54)
London, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Political party Social Democratic (1985–1987)
Liberal Democrats (1987–1995)
Labour (1995–2015)
Spouse(s) Kathryn Davies 1994-2015 (divorced)
Children 2
Alma mater Keble College, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
Profession Journalist

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis PC (born Andreas Adonis, 22 February 1963) is a former British Labour Party politician, academic and journalist who served in the Labour Government for five years. He is currently chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission.

Adonis began his career as an academic at Oxford University, before becoming a journalist at the Financial Times and later The Observer. Adonis was appointed by Prime Minister Tony Blair to be an advisor at the Number 10 Policy Unit, specialising in constitutional and educational policy, in 1998. He was later promoted to become the Head of the Policy Unit from 2001 until being made a life peer in 2005, when he was appointed to the Government soon after as Minister of State for Education. He remained in that role when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, before becoming Minister of State for Transport in 2008. In 2009, he was promoted to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport, a position he held until 2010.

Adonis has worked for a number of think tanks, is a board member of Policy Network and is the author or co-author of several books, including several studies of the British class system, the rise and fall of the Community Charge, and the Victorian House of Lords. He has also co-edited a collection of essays on Roy Jenkins. He was educated at Kingham Hill School and at Keble College and Nuffield College at Oxford.


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