David Yelland

David Yelland (born 14 May 1963) is a former journalist and editor of The Sun and founder of Kitchen Table Partners, a specialist public relations and communications company in London, which he formed in 2015 after leaving the Brunswick Group LLP. Early life and education Born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, Yelland was adopted at birth by Michael and Patricia Yelland of York. He has a younger brother, Paul. Yelland subsequently traced his birth father, now deceased. Yelland's natural mother was a children's writer from Harrogate, who died before he could meet her. In childhood he suffered alopecia and after wearing a series of wigs he decided to go without them when he was 31 and living in New York. Yelland was educated at Brigg Grammar School in Brigg, Lincolnshire, from 1976 to 1981, followed by Coventry Polytechnic (now Coventry University), where he obtained a BA in Economics. He was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party. He later studied at the Harvard Business School in 2003, sponsored by News International. Journalism Yelland's first journalism post after university was at the Buckinghamshire Advertiser. He was a trainee with Westminster Press, then part of Pearson, and worked on a series of regional papers including the Northern Echo and the North West Times in Manchester. Yelland was hired as business editor on The Sun in 1992 by editor Kelvin MacKenzie, and became deputy editor of New York Post in 1995, as well as a speech writer for Rupert Murdoch.