Albert Read was born in 1970 and educated at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Ampleforth College and New College, Oxford. Along with a journalistic career writing for the Spectator, Evening Standard and the Telegraph, he was also Literary Editor and Features Editor of the Express newspaper. At 29, he left journalism to do an MBA from INSEAD. He then joined Condé Nast International where he was instrumental in launching magazines in China and India. In 2018, he was appointed Managing Director of Condé Nast in Britain where he currently oversees a number of titles, including British Vogue, GQ, Wired, Condé Nast Traveller and the World of Interiors. He lives in London with his wife, the writer Catherine Ostler, and their three children.