Andrew Stephen Bower Knight (born 1 November 1939 in England) is a journalist, editor, and media baron.
He was educated at the Roman Catholic school Ampleforth College, where he was appointed Head Boy, and was awarded an Exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford (MA, Modern History). Knight worked at the City of London merchant bankers, J. Henry Schroder Wagg, from 1961 to 1963 and the Investors Chronicle from 1962 until 1966.

Career as journalist
Andrew Knight was born on 1 November 1939 to Group Captain M. W. B. Knight DFC and his wife S. E. F. Knight. Group Captain Knight was a decorated officer with the RAF, noted for founding Squadron 485, the New Zealand Squadron. In 1966, Andrew Knight married Victoria Catherine Brittain, by whom he had a son Casimir Steven Knight. After a divorce, he married Begum Sabiha Rumani Malik in 1975, with whom he has two daughters, Amaryllis Salima Knight, and Afsaneh Zoe Knight, and one step daughter, British journalist and author India Knight. They divorced in 1991.

Personal life

Member of the Board of News Corporation (1991- current)
Chairman, News International plc (1990-94)
CEO, Editor-in-Chief of the London Daily Telegraph Group (1986-89)
Editor in Chief of The Economist (1974-86)
Brussels Office of The Economist (1973-74)
Established the European Section of The Economist (1970-73)
Washington Office of The Economist (1968-70)
Investors Chronicle (1962-66)
J. Henry Schroder Wagg (1961-63)
Member of the Board of Reuters
Member of the Board of Tandem Computers
Director of Rothschild family Investment Trust