Camilla Cavendish

Who is Camilla Cavendish?

Camilla Hilary Cavendish is Associate Editor, columnist and leader writer for The Times. She graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1989 with a first-class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, where she was a contemporary of David Cameron and Guy Spier, amongst others. She has worked as a McKinsey management consultant, an aid worker, and as an aide to the CEO of Pearson Plc. She helped to found the lobby group London First, and was the first CEO of the not-for-profit trust South Bank Employers' Group, which masterminded the regeneration of the South Bank of the Thames in the late 1990s. She is also a former Kennedy Scholar, having spent two years at the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she obtained the degree of Master of Public Administration.

Cavendish was Harold Wincott Senior Financial Journalist of the Year 2012.

She was awarded the 2008 Paul Foot Award for campaigning journalism. In 2009 she was also awarded "Campaigning Journalist of the Year" at the British Press Awards. Awarding her the prize for Campaigning Journalist of the Year, the judges said: "A good newspaper campaign should be about an issue of serious injustice and strong public interest. A great one will be unexpected, one in which the outcome is not a done deal and which will in the end affect serious change. This campaign does that." Cavendish won the awards for her writings in The Times about the child protection injustices which she claimed resulted from the Children Act 1989 and the practices of family courts dealing with child protection issues. Her campaign convinced the Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw to introduce legislation which opened the family courts to the media in 2009.