Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis (born Andreas Adonis, 22 February 1963) is a British Labour politician who has been the Secretary of State for Transport since 5 June 2009. He was first appointed to the government following the 2005 general election, as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Children, Schools and Families. He previously served as an education and constitution policy advisor on the Number 10 Policy Unit from 1998 to 2005, heading it from 2001 to 2003. Before joining the government, Adonis was an academic at the University of Oxford, then a journalist at the Financial Times and The Observer.