About Speaker

Andrew Jack is global education editor at the Financial Times, overseeing its education coverage including a recent magazine on schools in lower income countries, business education including its rankings and the free schools access programme www.ft.com/schoolsarefree. He has been a journalist at the FT since 1990, including as Paris correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, pharmaceuticals correspondent and head of curation. He is author of the books Inside Putin's Russia and The French Exception. He received an MA (Hons) from St Catharine's College, Cambridge, was the Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellow at Harvard, and a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford.