Nicholas Coleridge

Nicholas Coleridge is the Managing Director of Condé Nast in Britain, the magazine publishing house that includes Vogue, Glamour, GQ, The World of Interiors, House and Garden, Conde Nast Traveller, Tatler, Easy Living, the Conde Nast Johansen hotel guides, Brides and Vanity Fair. He has been a Vice President of Conde Nast International since 1999, and oversees Conde Nast India in Mumbai.

He is the great-great-great-great-great grandson of the poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge [1], and son of David Coleridge, who was Chairman of Lloyd's of London during its most troubled period in the late 1980s. He was born in London and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied Theology and History of Art.

He has written twelve books, based largely upon either his professional life (The Fashion Conspiracy, "Paper Tigers", With Friends Like These) or his social world (Godchildren, A Much Married Man). He has been Chairman of the PPA - magazine publishers' association - and Chairman of the British Fashion Council. He was founding Chairman of Fashion Rocks, the fashion and rock music extravaganza, which has raised more than £3 million to date for the Prince's Trust charity. He has been a member of the Council of the Royal College of Art, and a member of the Marketing Committee of the Prince's Trust.

He was awarded the 1982 prize for British Press Awards Young Journalist of the Year when he was a columnist at the Evening Standard, and the Mark Boxer Lifetime Achievement Award for magazine journalism in 1999. He reports to Jonathan Newhouse, Chairman of Condé Nast International and his cousin Si Newhouse, owner of Condé Nast.

He is married to the author and former journalist Georgina Metcalfe with four children. He is resident in Chelsea and Worcestershire.