Vanessa Kingori MBE is the chief business officer, Style at CondéNast. A multi-award-winning, Britain-based businesswoman, diversity proponent, youth advocate and mother. With over 15 years ofexperience in the media industry, Vanessa has a special focus on business transformation, digitalisation and change management.
Vanessa is British Vogue’s first female business lead in its 105-year history. She is also Condé Nast’s first and only Black chief business officer. In Vanessa’s prior role of publishing director at British Vogues he led a significant shift in the brand’s purpose and business strategy with an emphasis on diversity of perspective, social responsibility and female empowerment. She has been credited amongst the 100 Most Influential Black Britons every year for the past 7 years, and her body of work and services to British Media led her to be awarded an MBE on the Queen's 90th Birthday Honours Lists, 2016.