Peter Martin Harkness (born May 1949) is a British media entrepreneur and investor.
[1] After a 15-year spell as a journalist in the West Midlands, Harkness became deputy editor of the Sunday Mercury when he switched to newspaper management.
He became managing director of the London Newspaper Group after acquiring it from Yattendon Investment Trust in a 1985.
[5] In 2006, he co-founded, with Owen Davies, the publishing and e-commerce group MyTime Media Ltd.[6] In 2009, concerned at the continuing dominance of privately educated pupils from the South of England being accepted at Oxbridge colleges, Harkness and his wife Sarah founded a series of bursaries and prizes to encourage applicants from Yorkshire and the North East to apply for places at Mansfield College, Oxford University.
[10] He retired after nine years as chairman of the listed investment fund, Chrysalis VCT in October 2017.