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Andrew Gowers (1957 - ) was appointed editor
Editing

Editing is the process of preparing language, s, sound, video, or film through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media....
 of the Financial Times
Financial Times

The Financial Times is a United Kingdom international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and is printed at 24 sites....
 in October 2001. He left this post in November 2005.

riday, 2 December 2005, he was commissioned by Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown

James Gordon Brown UK Member of Parliament is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Brown assumed office in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the governing Labour Party....
 to lead an independent review of intellectual property
Intellectual property

Intellectual property are law property over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial, and the corresponding fields of law. Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; ideas, discoveries and inventions; and words, phra...
 rights in the UK, known as the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property
Gowers Review of Intellectual Property

The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property was an independent review of the copyright law of the United Kingdom focusing on "intellectual property rights", conducted from December 2005 to December 2006....
. Amongst other things, this review was set up to consider the implications of extending the copyright on sound recordings in the UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
.

une 2006 Gowers joined Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services corporation that, until declaring bankruptcy in 2008, did business in investment banking, Stock and Bond sales, market research and stock trading, investment management, private equity, and private banking....
 in London as head of corporate communications, and stayed until the late 2008 collapse of the firm
Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 15, 2008. The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers is the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S....
 – one of the key events of the global financial crisis of 2008.






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Andrew Gowers (1957 - ) was appointed editor
Editing

Editing is the process of preparing language, s, sound, video, or film through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media....
 of the Financial Times
Financial Times

The Financial Times is a United Kingdom international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and is printed at 24 sites....
 in October 2001. He left this post in November 2005.

Gowers Review of Intellectual Property

On Friday, 2 December 2005, he was commissioned by Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown

James Gordon Brown UK Member of Parliament is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Brown assumed office in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the governing Labour Party....
 to lead an independent review of intellectual property
Intellectual property

Intellectual property are law property over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial, and the corresponding fields of law. Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; ideas, discoveries and inventions; and words, phra...
 rights in the UK, known as the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property
Gowers Review of Intellectual Property

The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property was an independent review of the copyright law of the United Kingdom focusing on "intellectual property rights", conducted from December 2005 to December 2006....
. Amongst other things, this review was set up to consider the implications of extending the copyright on sound recordings in the UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
.

Lehman Brothers

In June 2006 Gowers joined Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services corporation that, until declaring bankruptcy in 2008, did business in investment banking, Stock and Bond sales, market research and stock trading, investment management, private equity, and private banking....
 in London as head of corporate communications, and stayed until the late 2008 collapse of the firm
Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 15, 2008. The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers is the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S....
 – one of the key events of the global financial crisis of 2008. In December 2008 The Times
The Times

The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International....
 published his account of this period, in which he describes Lehman CEO Richard Fuld as “almost unbearably intense” and “insulated from the day-to-day realities of the firm” .