Business Waley-Cohen was a financial journalist, at the
Daily Mail from 1968 to 1973, from 1969 to 1983. director of the Stewart Wrightson Members Agency Ltd 1987 to 1998 He was chairman of First Call Group plc from 1996 to 1998 and of Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspaper plc from 1998 to 1999. and the
Savoy from 1997 to 2005. In April 2007 he took over the Ambassadors Theatre. He became the producer of
The Mousetrap in 1994. Mousetrap Productions, of which Waley-Cohen is the sole director, is licensed to produce the play by Mathew Prichard,
Agatha Christie's grandson, to whom she gave the rights to
The Mousetrap when he was nine. The charity brings disadvantaged young people into the West End to experience theatre, and runs access, education and audience development programmes. The charity had taken over 100,000 young people to the theatre by 2012. ==Politics==