Stephen Waley-Cohen

Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen Bart
Photo taken on 3 April 2009.
Born	Stephen Harry Waley-Cohen (1946-06-22) 22 June 1946 (age 70) Westminster, London, England
Education	Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Occupation	Theatre producer
Spouse(s)	Pamela Doniger (?-?; 3 children) Josie Spencer (2 children)

Sir Stephen Harry Waley-Cohen, 2nd Baronet (born 22 June 1946 in Westminster, London) is an English theatre owner-manager and producer, following a career as a businessman and financial journalist. He manages the St. Martin's Theatre in London's West End and is the current producer of The Mousetrap, the world's longest running play. He is Chairman of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) Council.

Waley-Cohen was a financial journalist, at the Daily Mail from 1968–73, and a founder director and publisher at Euromoney Publications (which later became Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC) from 1969–83.

He was involved with the insurance business, including as chairman of Willis Faber & Dumas (Agencies) (part of what became the Willis Group) from 1992–99, director of the Stewart Wrightson Members Agency Ltd 1987–98 and chairman of Policy Portfolio plc from 1993–98.

He was chairman of First Call Group plc from 1996–98 and of Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspaper plc from 1998–99. He was a director of Exeter Preferred Capital Investment Trust plc 1992–2003.

Waley-Cohen has been a theatre owner and manager since 1984 when he was Joint Chief Executive of Maybox Group, which managed the Albery (now named the Noël Coward), Criterion, Donmar Warehouse, Piccadilly, Whitehall (now Trafalgar Studios) and Wyndham's theatres, until it was sold in 1989.

In 1989 he became managing director of the Victoria Palace Theatre, and took on the management of the St. Martin's Theatre. He managed the Vaudeville Theatre from 1996–2001 and the Savoy from 1997–2005. In April 2007 he took over the Ambassadors Theatre. In 2014, he sold the Victoria Palace to Delfont Mackintosh Theatres.