Peter York

Social commentator and management consultant

Peter York is an author, broadcaster, and journalist who was Style Editor of Harpers and Queen for ten years and now writes regularly for The Independent and other broadsheets, on social tribes, social trends and interior design. He co-authored (with Ann Barr) The Sloane Ranger Handbook which was the UK's biggest-selling trade book of the 1980s, and has written six other books, including Dictators’ Homes (2006) and Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: The Return of the Sloane Ranger (2007). He wrote and presented Peter York's 80s, a six-part BBC series shown in 1996, with an accompanying BBC book, and his documentary The Rise and Fall of the Adman for the BBC was shown on BBC2 in 2008.

As a management consultant working under the name of Peter Wallis he has also had a parallel career advising major corporates, government departments and institutions in many sectors, specialising in the commercial exploitation of cultural change.