1. Daniel Finkelstein is a former executive editor of The Times, where he remains a weekly political columnist, and has been a regular columnist at The Jewish Chronicle since 2010.
21 Facts About Daniel Finkelstein
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Daniel Finkelstein is a former chairman of Policy Exchange who was succeeded by David Frum in 2014.
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Daniel Finkelstein is Chairman of the centre-right public policy think tank Onward and was a Founding Director of the Social Market Foundation.
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Daniel Finkelstein is a Vice President of the Jewish Leadership Council and one of the co-hosts of the weekly podcast How To Win An Election from The Times, presented by Matt Chorley and alongside Peter Mandelson and Polly Mackenzie.
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Daniel Finkelstein is a grandson, via his mother, of Dr Alfred Wiener, the Jewish activist and founder of the Wiener Library.
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Daniel Finkelstein is the brother of Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein CBE FREng, President of City, University of London and of Tamara Finkelstein, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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Daniel Finkelstein was educated at University College School, the London School of Economics and City University London.
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Between 1981 and 1988, Daniel Finkelstein was a member of the Social Democratic Party, becoming Chair of the Young Social Democrats on the defection of his predecessor Keith Toussaint to the Conservative Party during the 1983 general election campaign.
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At around this time, Daniel Finkelstein became a close ally and adviser to David Owen, the SDP leader.
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Daniel Finkelstein formerly sat on the Board of Governors of the Gatestone Institute, a far-right think-tank known for publishing anti-Muslim articles.
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Daniel Finkelstein acknowledged that his failure to do so earlier was "worthy of criticism".
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Between 1995 and 1997, Daniel Finkelstein was Director of the Conservative Research Department and in that capacity advised Prime Minister John Major and attended meetings of the Cabinet when it sat in political session.
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Daniel Finkelstein became among the earliest advocates of the 'modernisation' of the Conservative Party, laying out the principles of change in a series of speeches and columns in The Times.
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Between 1990 and 1992, Daniel Finkelstein was the editor of Connexion, Britain's first Internet and data communications newspaper.
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Daniel Finkelstein joined The Times in August 2001 as part of the leader writing team and was Comment Editor from March 2004 to June 2008.
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Daniel Finkelstein began The Times blog Comment Central in September 2006.
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Daniel Finkelstein is a regular columnist in The Jewish Chronicle.
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In June 2023, Daniel Finkelstein published a memoir, Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival, an account of his mother and father's experiences during World War II.
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Daniel Finkelstein was awarded the OBE in the 1997 honours list.
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Daniel Finkelstein was created Baron Finkelstein of Pinner in the London Borough of Harrow on 11 September 2013.
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Daniel Finkelstein was given an honorary Doctor of Science degree by City University London in 2011.