Peter York
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Peter York, real name Peter Wallis, is a British management consultant, author and broadcaster most famous for co-authoring Harpers & Queen's The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook with Ann Barr. He is also a columnist for The Independent on Sunday, GQ and Management Today.
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Peter Wallis was the co-founder, with Lord Stevenson of the management consultancy SRU Ltd, and during the 1980s developed the SRU Group of nine specialist business consultancies. He was appointed Chairman of a Department of Trade and Industry Committee in March 1994. The committee was set up to examine the future of leisure in the UK as part of the British Government's 'Foresight' initiative.
On the Born Today web site, a "Peter York" is credited with saying "Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world."
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It is under his pseudonym Peter York that Wallis' has made his most high-profile offerings, from writing the Sloane Ranger Handbook and being Style Editor of Harpers & Queen for 10 years, to financing The Modern Review.
[edit] External links
- York's biography at The Marketing Society
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