Colin Morrison

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Colin Morrison was until March 2008 Chief Executive of ACP-Natmag Magazines, a UNited KIngdom partnership between the National Magazine Company (owned by the Hearst Corporation) and Australian Consolidated Press and was also CEO of ACP Media UK Ltd.

Having established this weekly magazines group and been CEO since its formation four years before, Morrison left after after selling ACP's 50% share to Hearst/ NatMags. Morrison is chairman of Royal Pharmaceutical Society Publishing, a non-executive director of Centaur Media Plc, and Media Futures Ltd. ^[1]

He was formerly deputy chief executive of Reed Business Information, Managing Director of Future Plc, CEO of Axel Springer International a director of Emap Plc and of Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (Australia). He has worked as a journalist on newspapers and magazines variously in the UK, Ireland and the USA, and has managed print, TV and online media businesses around the world. ^[2]

Colin Morrison is

Chairman of the Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation (Patron: HRH The Princess Royal),
Freeman of the City of London and liveryman of the Stationers Company,
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and
Fellow of the Industry Parliament Trust. ^[3]

In his role as Chairman of the Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation, Mr Morrison has been campaigning for government to learn the lessons of the charity's work and what the country's best boarding schools can do to help transform the life prospects of vulnerable children. ^[4]