Edmund King OBE is a British public relations professional, best known for media appearances on the subject of motorists in his role as President of The Automobile Association.
King was educated at St Hugh's College, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire and studied politics at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he has since returned as Visiting Professor of Transport.
Starting out as a civil servant, King worked as a committee secretary for the Social Science Research Council, and for a Government Department in Whitehall.
[1] He has worked around the world, in public relations for Bouchard Aine et Fils, a Burgundy wine producer, in the motor industry in California, and as a broadcaster in Los Angeles.
[4] Although well known as a champion of motorists, King is also a keen cyclist, and in 2012 made headlines by condemning cyclist-hating drivers as "absolute idiots".