Alan Rusbridger — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as Editor at Prospect Magazine since 2021.
Was Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian from 1995 to 2015.
Served as Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 2015 to 2021.
Appointed as a Board Member of the Facebook Oversight Board in 2020.
Chairs the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism since 2016.
Authored "Play It Again," a book about rediscovering the joy of performing Chopin Ballade No. 1.
Read English Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Biography

Alan Charles Rusbridger is a British journalist and editor, currently holding the position of Editor at Prospect Magazine since 2021. He is widely recognized for his tenure as editor-in-chief of The Guardian from 1995 to 2015, following an earlier career as a reporter and columnist for the newspaper. Born in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia, Rusbridger returned to Britain at age five and was educated at Cranleigh School before reading English Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge.