Alan Cochrane is a journalist, the Scottish editor of the British broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
[1] Cochrane was born in Dundee and educated at Grove Academy in the city's Broughty Ferry area.
He entered journalism as a sub-editor and reporter for DC Thomson before joining the Daily Express in Glasgow.
Between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s he was based in London, covering political issues across a number of newspapers.
In the late 1990s he became a columnist at The Daily Telegraph before taking up the role of its Scottish editor.