Peter Usborne

He then went up to Balliol College at the University of Oxford,[1] followed by INSEAD business school,[1] at the time based in Fontainebleau, a commune of the city of Paris, in France.

Usborne was the first managing director of the London-based satirical magazine Private Eye from its foundation in 1961, before leaving to study at INSEAD.

[3] After taking a position at the British Printing Corporation, he started working in children's books when he found out he was going to become a parent.

[14] Usborne said that parenthood had been the greatest privilege of his life, and that publishing children's books had been an extension of that.

[22] Usborne was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to the publishing industry,[23] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to literature.