Sir Simon Jenkins

Simon Jenkins is a journalist, author and broadcaster and has served as the Chairman of the National Trust and, previously, as Deputy Chairman of English Heritage. He was political editor of The Economist for five years, and went on to be editor The Times and the Evening Standard. He now writes twice weekly for the Guardian and regularly for the Evening Standard.

He has been a board member of British Rail, London Transport, Faber and Faber and the Pevsner book trust, and a Trustee of the Millennium Commission, the Museum of London, Somerset House, the South Bank Centre, SAVE, the Thirties Society, and the RIBA drawings collection. He has written books on churches, houses, London and Welsh architecture, as well as on politics and a Short History of England. His next book is on station architecture. He was knighted in 2004 and is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in London and Wales.