Alan Rusbridger Alan Rusbridger ( born December 29 1953 ) has been editor of The Guardian since 1995 . He was previously a reporter , columnist , features editor and deputy editor of The Guardian . He worked for The Observer and as Washington Editor of the London Daily News before returning to The Guardian in 1987 . He is a member of the main board of the Guardian Media Group and of the Scott Trust , which owns The Guardian , and is executive editor of The Observer . He is a visiting Fellow of Nuffield College , Oxford , and Visiting Professor of History at Queen Mary 's College , University of London . Since 2004 he has been Chairman of the National Youth Orchestra . Disparaging remarks he made about the discipline prompted Gordon Marshall to write In Praise of Sociology ( 1990 ) . Bibliography The Wildest Day at the Zoo ( 2005 ) ISBN 0-14-131933-X The Coldest Day at the Zoo ( 2004 ) ISBN 0-14-131745-0 The Guardian Year ( 1994 ) edited by Alan Rusbridger ISBN 1-85702-265-3 A Concise History of the Sex Manual , 1886-1986 ( 1986 ) ISBN 0-571-13519-6 External link Guardian - Alan Rusbridger profile page Preceded by : Peter Preston Editor of The Guardian 1995 - present Succeeded by : N/A Categories : 1953 births | Alumni of Magdalene College , Cambridge | British journalists | British newspaper editors | Living people | Guardian journalists In other languages : Nederlands Peter Preston Editor of The Guardian 1995 - present N/A 