Camilla Hilary Cavendish (born 20 August 1968) is a British columnist and leader writer for The Times[1]. She graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford [2] in 1989 with a first-class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (MA). She has worked as a McKinsey management consultant, an aid worker, and CEO of a not-for-profit company. 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 (MPA).
Cavendish was awarded the 2008 Paul Foot Award for campaigning journalism.[3] 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."[4] 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.