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Peter Miles Young (born June 1954) is the Warden of New College, Oxford. Until September 2016 he was worldwide Chairman and CEO of the international advertising, marketing and public relations agency Ogilvy & Mather.He retains a non-executive role with the firm. Young's career in advertising has spanned Lintas, Allen Brady & Marsh and Ogilvy & Mather, which he joined in 1982.
Biography
Young was educated at Bedford School and at New College, Oxford, where he gained a first class degree in Modern History. In 1990 he was appointed as Managing Director of Ogilvy & Mather Direct in London. Between 1990 and 1995 he was Regional Director of Ogilvy & Mather Direct Europe. Between 1994 and 1995 he had additional responsibility for running the IBM account in Europe.
In 1995 Young was appointed Chairman of Asia Pacific at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide. He was CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide from 2008, and CEO of the Ogilvy Group from 2009. He was Chairman of the Board and Director of Ogilvy & Mather SAS from 2012.
Young is a co-founder of the Ogilvy-Tsinghua Programme for Public Branding, a joint venture with Tsinghua University, Beijing, and is a member of the Advisory Board of Tsinghua University. He is a visiting Professor of Xiamen University and of the Wanli Ningbo University. He succeeded Sir Curtis Price as the Warden of New College, Oxford in September 2016