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Nicholas David Coleridge CBE (born 4 March 1957) is President of Condé Nast International,〔http://www.condenastinternational.com/〕 the division of Condé Nast which publishes more than 100 magazines and 80 branded websites in 24 markets globally. He is Chairman of the Victoria & Albert Museum, having been a Trustee from 2012-2015. He was appointed Chairman Designate by Prime Minister David Cameron in March 2015, effective from November 1st 2015. 〔http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/trustees/〕 He is also Chairman of HRH The Prince of Wales' Campaign for Wool〔http://www.campaignforwool.org/〕 (Deputy Chairman 2009–2013). Coleridge is also the managing director of Condé Nast in Britain, the magazine publishing house that includes ''Vogue'', ''Glamour'', ''GQ'', ''The World of Interiors'', ''House & Garden'', ''Condé Nast Traveller'', ''Tatler'', ''Brides'', ''Wired, Love'', ''Vanity Fair'' and ''Ars Technica'' as well as Condé Nast Johansens and the Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design. == Life and career == Coleridge was born in London. He is the great-great-great-great-great nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge,〔(Nicholas Coleridge Q&A at Orion Publishing Group )〕 and son of David Coleridge, who was Chairman of Lloyd's of London in the late 1980s. He is the eldest of three brothers, and educated at Eton College〔http://www.etoncollege.com/FamousOEs.aspx〕 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 name of the trophy was later changed when Thorpe's reputation fell under a shadow. He has written twelve books,〔http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nicholas-Coleridge/e/B001IQUO7O〕 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 4th 1988). He has been Chairman of the PPA – the magazine publishers' association – and Chairman of the British Fashion Council. He was founding Chairman of Fashion Rocks, the fashion and rock music extravaganza, which raised more than £3 million for the Prince's Trust charity. He was on the Advisory Board for the Concert for Diana, Wembley Stadium 2007. He has been a member of the Council of the Royal College of Art, and a member of the Trading Board of the Prince's Trust. He was a Director of PressBof,〔http://www.pcc.org.uk/about/whoswho/pressbof.html〕 the parent organisation of the Press Complaints Commission, 2007-2014. He is an Ambassador for the Landmark Trust, and a Patron of the Elephant Family. While on assignment making a television documentary about Tamil terrorism in Sri Lanka in 1984, he was arrested and jailed for ten days in Welikada prison, Colombo, where he embarked upon writing a collection of short stories, '(''How I Met My Wife ). As a journalist, he has been an irregular contributor to ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''Sunday Telegraph'', ''The Spectator'' and the ''Financial Times''. In 1976, between school and university, he was a cub reporter on the Falmouth Packet newspaper in Cornwall. From 1979 -82 he was Associate Editor of the ''Tatler'', working for then editor Tina Brown; from 1982 – 85 he was a columnist at the ''Evening Standard''; 1986–89 he was editor of ''Harpers & Queen'' magazine, a Hearst title, before joining Condé Nast, initially as Editorial Director of the British Company. He was described by ''Campaign'' magazine in 2012 as “''magazines' most compelling advocate for almost two decades''”.〔Alastair Reid ("All About ... Magazine industry consolidation" ), ''Campaign'', 16 February 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicholas Coleridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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