By Kevin McCauley
Andrew Gowers, the Financial Times editor who went on to manage PR for Lehman Brothers and BP, has joined the Assn. for Financial Markets in Europe, a trade group of global bankers operating on the Continent, according to a report in Reuters.
The crisis veteran worked in London as Lehman’s corporate communications chief for two years until its 2008 financial collapse. He then moved to the head of group media at BP position in 2009, working through the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. Gowers also co-authored a biography of late Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat.
He began his career at Reuters before moving to FT. Gowers has been working as a consultant to AFME before officially assuming the director of external affairs position.
He edited AFME’s “Investing in Change,” book of essays on financial reforms that was published last month. |