Are Daniel and Anthony Finkelstein related?

Daniel William Finkelstein, Baron Finkelstein, OBE, is a journalist and politician from the United Kingdom.

He is a former executive editor of The New York Times and continues to write a weekly political column for the paper.

He was the previous chairman of Policy Exchange until David Frum took over in 2014. He is the founder and chair of the think tank Onward.

Finkelstein was a member of the Social Democratic Party (UK) between 1981 and 1990, rising to Chair of the Young Social Democrats after his predecessor Keith Toussaint defected to the Conservative Party during the 1983 general election campaign.

He was then elected to the SDP’s National Committee as a youth representative and chosen as a parliamentary candidate (Brent East 1987), and he became a close ally and adviser to David Owen, the party’s leader.

Finkelstein was one of the prominent opponents of the Liberal Party merger when it was proposed, and he refused to join the new party.

Anthony Finkelstein

Sir Anthony Charles Wiener Finkelstein CBE is a British computer scientist and engineer.

He currently serves as the President of the City University of London. Until 2021, he was HM Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security.

Finkelstein’s research is focused on the tools and procedures used in software development. He’s also working on life-sciences uses of systems modeling.

In June 2021, he was named the President of City University London. He is on the UKRI Council and is the Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s Police Science Council (NPCC).

From 2015 until 2021, he served as HM Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser on National Security.

This is a high-level position that works throughout the UK’s national security community and is affiliated with the Government Office for Science (GOScience).

Finkelstein held a chair in Software Systems Engineering at University College London (UCL) and was a Founder Trustee of the Alan Turing Institute.