Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis PC (born Andreas Adonis; 22 February 1963) is a British Labour Party politician, academic and journalist who served in the Labour Government for five years. He served as chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission in 2017, and previously interim chair from 2015 to 2017.
Adonis began his career as an academic at Oxford University, before becoming a journalist at the Financial Times and later The Observer. Adonis was appointed by Prime Minister Tony Blair to be an advisor at the Number 10 Policy Unit, specialising in constitutional and educational policy, in 1998. He was later promoted to become the Head of the Policy Unit from 2001 until being made a life peer in 2005, when he was appointed to the Government soon after as Minister of State for Education. He remained in that role when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, before becoming Minister of State for Transport in 2008. In 2009, he was promoted to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport, a position he held until 2010.