Editing Jim Knight (section)

==After politics==
Knight was created a [[Life Peer|life peer]] on 23 June 2010, taking the title Baron Knight of Weymouth, of [[Weymouth, Dorset|Weymouth]] in the County of Dorset.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100407165838/http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/135065/ministers_interests.pdf|title=UK Government Web Archive|website=webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=59471 |date=28 June 2010 |page=12149}}</ref>

In April 2014 he stepped down from the Labour front bench in the House of Lords to take up a full-time role as managing director, online learning at TES Global Ltd, building an online professional development and training service for teachers. Knight was subsequently appointed chief education and external officer at TES Global.

In 2011, Knight was appointed as chair of digital and social inclusion charity Tinder Foundation (now [[Good Things Foundation]]). He stood down as chair in 2016 but remains a patron of the Technology, Pedagogy and Education professional association. He is now Chair Emeritus of the Digital Poverty Alliance and co-owner of XRapid, an app that diagnoses malaria and is a board member of Apps for Good. He is also the deputy chair of the Nominet Trust,{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} and an honorary associate of the [[National Secular Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.secularism.org.uk/honoraryassociates.html|title=Honorary Associates|website=www.secularism.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-08-01}}</ref>