Daniel William Finkelstein, Baron Finkelstein, OBE (born 30 August 1962) is a British journalist and politician. He is a former executive editor of The Times and remains a weekly political columnist.
He is a former chairman of Policy Exchange who was succeeded by David Frum in 2014. He is chair of the think tank Onward. He was made a member of the House of Lords in August 2013, sitting as a Conservative.
Finkelstein is Jewish; his mother, Mirjam Finkelstein, was a Holocaust survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, while his father Ludwik Finkelstein OBE was born in Lviv (then in Poland but now in Ukraine), and became a Professor of Measurement and Instrumentation at City University London.
He is a grandson, via his mother, of Dr. Alfred Wiener, the Jewish activist and founder of the Wiener Library. He 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
Before working for the Conservative Party, Finkelstein was Director of a think-tank, the Social Market Foundation, for three years. During his period with the SMF, the organization brought New York police commissioner Bill Bratton to London, for the first time introducing UK politicians to the new strategies being used there.
Is Daniel Finkelstein Married?
There are no details about his marital status. He may be married or unmarried. There are also no rumors about his wife and girlfriend.
