19 Facts About Camilla Cavendish

Hilary Camilla Cavendish, Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice was born on 20 August 1968 and is a British journalist, Senior Fellow at Harvard University and former Director of Policy for Prime Minister David Cameron.

Camilla Cavendish was educated at Putney High School and graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1989 with a first-class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Camilla Cavendish was a Kennedy Scholar for two years at the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, gaining the degree of Master of Public Administration.

Camilla Cavendish then moved to The Sunday Times from 2012 to May 2015.

Camilla Cavendish has worked as a McKinsey management consultant, an aid worker, and as an aide to the CEO of Pearson plc.

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Camilla Cavendish 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.

From May 2015 to July 2016, Camilla Cavendish was head of the prime minister's policy unit at No10 Downing Street in succession to Jo Johnson.

Amongst initiatives, Camilla Cavendish is credited with persuading the Prime Minister and his Chancellor about the benefits of a sugar tax; she said that the "link between sugary drinks and obesity are clear and stark".

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

Camilla Cavendish was awarded the 2008 Paul Foot Award for campaigning journalism and in 2009 the "Campaigning Journalist of the Year" at the British Press Awards.

Camilla Cavendish won the awards for her articles 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.

Camilla Cavendish was reckoned by the Health Service Journal to be the 85th-most influential person in the English NHS in 2015.

Camilla Cavendish was ranked the fifth-most influential woman in the UK in the BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour 2015 PowerList.

Camilla Cavendish became a Trustee of the think-tank Policy Exchange in 2002 and was a Trustee of the Thames Festival Trust between 2000 and 2007.

In 2013, Camilla Cavendish became a Trustee of the Foundation Years Trust chaired by Frank Field MP.

Camilla Cavendish was nominated for a life peerage as part of David Cameron's Resignation Honours and was created Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice, of Mells in the County of Somerset, on 6 September 2016.

Camilla Cavendish became a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Today programme in 2017.

In 2020 Camilla Cavendish was called back into government as an adviser to the Department of Health, and led an internal review of the future of social care and health reform.

Camilla Cavendish is married to the financier Huw van Steenis, and they have three children.