Geordie Greig

George "Geordie" Carron Greig (born 16 December 1960 in Lambeth, London) is an English journalist and editor of The Mail on Sunday.

Greig is the son of the late Sir Carron Greig and Monica Stourton, granddaughter of Lord Mowbray. Greig's great-grandfather was Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton, and members of his father's family have been royal courtiers for three generations - including his sister Laura, who was a lady-in-waiting to Princess Diana. He attended Eton College and St Peter's College, Oxford.

Greig began his career as a reporter for the South East London and Kentish Mercury newspaper, before joining the Daily Mail and then Sunday Today, he moved to The Sunday Times in 1987 becoming Arts correspondent in 1989 and then its American correspondent based in New York in 1991. Greig returned to London in 1995 to become The Sunday Times Literary Editor and was then appointed editor of Tatler magazine in 1999.

He was appointed editor of the London Evening Standard in February 2009. During his time as editor the Dispossessed Campaign was launched tackling poverty, illiteracy and unemployment. The campaign led to a Dispossessed Fund which has raised over £9 million for grassroots groups addressing poverty and has helped more than 100,000 people, including the homeless and unemployed. He was the editor or Tatler magazine for 10 years before moving to the Evening Standard. In 2010 he was appointed Editorial Director of The Independent, The Independent on Sunday and i (Independent Print Ltd) and the Evening Standard.

In March 2012, Greig became editor of the Mail on Sunday while remaining a director of Independent Print Ltd and The London Evening Standard.

In addition to his editorial duties, Greig has literary interests, for instance being an admirer of the work of Samuel Menashe and Anthony Trollope. He wrote the foreword for the Forward Book of Poetry (1999).

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