Geoffrey Owen

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Geoffrey Owen
Sir Geoffrey Owen, c1990s.jpg
Owen in the 1990s
Born (1934-04-16) 16 April 1934 (age 89)
Education Dragon School
Rugby School
Alma mater Balliol College, Oxford
Known forEditor of the Financial Times
Senior Fellow at the Department of Management, LSE
Executive of the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation
Non-executive Director of Laird Group plc
Chairman of the Wincott Foundation
Spouse Miriam Gross
Parents
Relatives Tom Gross (stepson)
Susanna Gross (stepdaughter) [1]

Sir Geoffrey Owen (born 16 April 1934) [2] is a British journalist, academic and author. He was formerly editor of the Financial Times newspaper and is currently Head of Industrial Policy at the think tank Policy Exchange in London. [3] He is also a Visiting Professor in Practice in the Department of Management, London School of Economics.

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Early life

Geoffrey Owen is the son of L. G. Owen and the tennis player Violet Owen. [4] He was also a tennis player and competed at Wimbledon during the 1950s. [5]

Owen was educated at the Dragon School, Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. [6] He served in the Royal Air Force for two years as part of the national service.

Career

He joined the Financial Times as a feature writer in 1958. He held several posts on that paper, including industrial correspondent, industrial editor, and US correspondent based in New York. Between 1968 and 1973, he left journalism, serving first as an executive in the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation and then as personnel director in the overseas division of British Leyland Motor Corporation. He was deputy editor of the Financial Times from 1973 to 1980 and editor from 1981 to 1990. He was knighted in the 1989 New Year Honours. [7]

He was a non-executive director of Laird Group plc from 2001 to the end of 2006. [8]

Personal life

He is married to literary editor Miriam Gross. [9] [10]

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References

  1. "Susanna Gross". The English Bridge Union. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  2. "Birthday's today". The Daily Telegraph. 16 April 2012. Archived from the original on 16 April 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2014. Sir Geoffrey Owen, Senior Fellow, Department of Management, LSE, 78;
  3. "Sir Geoffrey Owen - People - Policy Exchange" . Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  4. Bill Edwards. "Obituary: Violet Owen | Culture". The Independent . Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  5. "Good lord". Financial Times . 2 July 2011.
  6. "Author Details : Geoffrey Owen". Harpercollins.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  7. UK list: "No. 51578". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1988. p. 2.
  8. "Press releases". Archived from the original on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  9. Rupert Christiansen. "An Almost English Life: Literary, and Not so Literary Recollections by Miriam Gross: review Culture". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  10. David Sexton. "The formidable literary editor Miriam Gross talks to David Sexton about what makes a writer and the agony of love Culture". The Evening Standard . Retrieved 10 December 2016.
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Preceded by Editor of The Financial Times
1981-1991
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