Daniel William Finkelstein, Baron Finkelstein, OBE, is a journalist and politician from the United Kingdom.
He is a former executive editor of The New York Times and continues to write a weekly political column for the paper.
Meet Anthony Finkelstein
Anthony Charles Wiener Finkelstein CBE is a British computer scientist and engineer.
He currently serves as the President of the City University of London. Until 2021, he was HM Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security.
Finkelstein’s research is focused on the tools and procedures used in software development. He’s also working on life-sciences uses of systems modeling.
In June 2021, he was named the President of City University London. He is on the UKRI Council and is the Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s Police Science Council (NPCC).
From 2015 until 2021, he served as HM Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser on National Security.
This is a high-level position that works throughout the UK’s national security community and is affiliated with the Government Office for Science (GOScience).
Finkelstein held a chair in Software Systems Engineering at University College London (UCL) and was a Founder Trustee of the Alan Turing Institute.
Meet Tamara Finkelstein
Tamara Margaret Finkelstein CB is a permanent secretary of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the United Kingdom.
Tamara Margaret Finkelstein was born on May 24, 1967, to Ludwik Finkelstein, a professor, and Mirjam Finkelstein, a Holocaust survivor, and educator.
Her grandpa was Alfred Wiener, and she has two brothers: Daniel Finkelstein, a journalist, and politician, and Anthony Finkelstein, a software engineer, and public servant.
She attended Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls before going on to Balliol College, Oxford, to study engineering science and economics, graduating in 1989 and 1992, respectively.
Finkelstein began working for HM Treasury as an economic adviser in 1992.
In 1997, she was appointed as the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s private secretary and speechwriter, and in 2000, she was promoted to senior adviser.
She worked at Sure Start as a deputy director from 2001 to 2004 before moving on to a number of director positions.
She became the Chief Operating Officer and director-general of the Department of Health in 2014 after 22 years at the Treasury.
