Geordie Greig

Geordie Greig is Editor-in-Chief of The Independent. He has previously edited Tatler, the London Evening Standard, The Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mail.

He is Chair of the Friends of the Nations’ Libraries, a charity dedicated to safeguarding Britain’s literary heritage, of which HM The King is patron. He has also served as a trustee of the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation, which raises funds for research into childhood cancer.

An authority on contemporary art, Geordie has interviewed many of the leading artists of the modern era, including Francis Bacon, Henry Moore and David Hockney. His books include Breakfast with Lucian, a biography of Lucian Freud, and The Kingmaker, about the friendship between George VI and his grandfather, Louis Greig.