Veronica Wadley

Veronica Judith Colleton Wadley (born 28 February 1952) is Chair of Arts Council London and board member of Arts Council England (2010-present). She was a senior advisor to the former Mayor of London, Boris Johnson (2012-2016) and the chair of the Mayor’s Music Fund (2012-present). She is also a non-executive director of the Berkeley Group and an independent Director of Times Newspapers Holdings.

Prior to this she was the editor of the Evening Standard (2002-2009) and previously deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph.

Wadley was born in Chelsea and educated at the independent Francis Holland School in central London and at Benenden School in Kent. She was employed by Condé Nast (1971-74), working on Vogue, before travelling to South Africa where she worked as a journalist for three years. She subsequently joined the The Telegraph colour magazine (1978–81) and The Mail on Sunday for five years before rejoining The Daily Telegraph in 1986 remaining there until 1996, being appointed deputy editor in 1994. She has also worked on the Daily Mail as deputy editor and features editor (1996–2002).

A British journalist, Wadley was editor of London's Evening Standard from February 2002 to February 2009, during which time it was owned by Associated Newspapers. She was the first female editor of the paper. During her seven years at the Standard she championed the arts and chaired the Evening Standard Theatre awards and Film awards. After Alexander Lebedev acquired the Standard in 2009, he replaced her with former Tatler editor Geordie Greig.

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