Robin Esser

Robin Esser, Executive Managing Editor of Associated Newspapers - and a long-standing member of the London Press Club - was appointed to the Board at a meeting of the Club's Directors on 6 June 2002. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he was editor of Cherwell, Robin worked freelance for a number of years before joining the Daily Express as a reporter. He was then successively editor of the William Hickey column, Features Editor and head of the New York Bureau, before returning to the UK in 1970 to become Northern Editor. Consultant editor of the Evening News in 1977, he later rejoined the Daily Express, working closely, as Executive Editor, with Sir Larry Lamb, in 1985. The following year, he succeeded Sir John Junor as Editor of the Sunday Express, and became Group Editorial Consultant for Express Newspapers in 1986.