Peter Wallis
Peter Wallis aka Peter York is a “Style Guru, Author, Presenter, Management Consultant”[1] with links to government and major corporations. Alongside businessman and political networker Dennis Stevenson Wallis was co-founder of management consultancy SRU where Peter Mandelson worked as a consultant between 1990 and 1992[2].
He was appointed Chairman of the Department of Trade and Industry Committee examining the future of leisure in the UK as part of the British Government’s ‘Foresight’ initiative in 1994.[3]. Wallis was also chairman of media consultants Hydra Associates between 1987 and 1999[4]. Blairite politician James Purnell worked as a strategy consultant for Hydra Associates between 1992 and 1994[5].
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Peter York
Peter Wallis has featured more in the public eye under his pseudonym Peter York. From writing the Sloane Ranger Handbook and being Style Editor of Harpers & Queen for 10 years, to financing The Modern Review. York co-authored Harpers & Queen's The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook with Ann Barr. He is also a columnist for The Independent on Sunday, GQ magazine and Management Today.
Affiliations
Department of Trade and Industry | Britain Abroad Task Force | Hydra Associates | Tate Gallery | MFI Plc | St. Marylebone Society | Dunhill | Waterford | Harpers & Queen | World of Interiors | The Economist | The Financial Times | Jaegar | Tiffany | Mont Blanc | Liberty | Coutts & Co
Publications
- Style Wars (1980)
- The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982)
- Peter York's Eighties (1995), co-authored with Charles Jennings
- Dictators' Homes (2005)
- Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: the Return of the Sloane Ranger (2007), with Olivia Stewart-Liberty.
Notes
- ↑ Peter York (Wallis), Broadcasters, Capel & Land, Accessed 08-August-2009
- ↑ Peter York, Biography, The Frieze Foundation, Accessed 07-August-2009
- ↑ Peter York (Wallis), Broadcasters, Capel & Land, Accessed 08-August-2009
- ↑ Peter York (Wallis), Broadcasters, Capel & Land, Accessed 08-August-2009
- ↑ Politics, James Purnell, The Guardian, Accessed 13-August-2009
