Simon Wolfson is the Chief Executive of the clothing and homeware retailer Next PLC. He graduated with a degree in Law from Trinity College, Cambridge, and began working as a Sales Assistant for Next in 1991. In 1997 he joined the Main Board and became Managing Director in 1999. In August 2001, at the age of 33, he was appointed Chief Executive, becoming the youngest FTSE 100 CEO at that time. Wolfson has a keen interest in economics, history, and politics and was made a life peer in May 2010