Catherine Mayer is an author and journalist. Her book Amortality: The Pleasures and Perils of Living Agelessly is published by Vermilion, an imprint of Random House. She is the London Bureau Chief for TIME, where she has also served as Senior Editor. She has worked as a foreign correspondent at the German news weekly Focus and started her career at The Economist.
She was President of the Foreign Press Association in London from June 2003 until June 2005. American-born Mayer is married to Andy Gill of Gang of Four. Her sister is The Young Ones writer Lise Mayer.[1][2][3][4] [5] [6] [7] [8]