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Nicholas Coleridge
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Born |
Nicholas David Coleridge 4 March 1957 |
Nationality | England |
Education |
Eton College Trinity College, Cambridge |
Occupation | President of Condé Nast International |
Nicholas David Coleridge CBE (born 4 March 1957) is President of Condé Nast International, the division of Condé Nast which operates in 27 markets outside of the US, publishing 139 magazines and more than 120 digital businesses.
He is Chairman of the Victoria & Albert Museum, having been a Trustee from 2012-2015. He is also Chairman of HRH The Prince of Wales' Campaign for Wool (Deputy Chairman 2009–2013). He has also been Chairman of the Gilbert Collection since 2015.
Since 1991, Coleridge has also been Managing Director of Condé Nast in Britain, the magazine publishing house that includes Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, GQ, The World of Interiors, House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveller, Tatler, Brides, Wired", "Love, and Ars Technica as well as Condé Nast Johansens and the Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design.
Coleridge was born in London, the son of David Coleridge, who was Chairman of Lloyd's of London in the late 1980s, and descended from a brother of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He is the eldest of three brothers, and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied Theology and History of Art; however, due to a back injury, he was not able to sit his Finals. As an Eton schoolboy, he won the Jeremy Thorpe Cup for debating with his school friend Craig Brown, though the trophy was later re-named when Thorpe's reputation fell under a shadow.
He has written twelve books, both fiction and non-fiction, based largely upon either his professional life (The Fashion Conspiracy, Paper Tigers, With Friends Like These) or social novels (A Much Married Man, Godchildren, Deadly Sins, The Adventuress). The Fashion Conspiracy was briefly the Number One bestseller, hardback non-fiction (The Times, March 4, 1988).