Andrew Adonis
Andrew Adonis is the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools and Learners.
His principal policy areas include school formation including Trust schools, Academies and Specialist schools, primary education including phonics, the City Challenge programme, and Special Education Needs.
Andrew Adonis was first appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State to the then Department for Education and Skills in May 2005. Prior to this he was the previous Prime Minister Tony Blair’s adviser on education and public services, and Head of the No 10 Policy Unit, joining in 1998 after a career as an academic and journalist.
Between 1988 and 1998 he was successively Fellow (in history and politics) of Nuffield College, Oxford; education correspondent and then Public Policy Editor at the Financial Times; and political columnist and leader writer at The Observer.
He is author or co-author of six books, including studies of the English class system (A Class Act, 1997), the rise and fall of the poll tax (Failure in British Government, 1994), the Victorian House of Lords (Making Aristocracy Work, 1993) and a collection of essays on Roy Jenkins published last year.
