Camilla Cavendish

Advisory Committee Member

Experience:

Camilla Cavendish is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, and the author of “Extra Time: Ten Lessons for an Ageing World”, published by Harper Collins in 2019. She is a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School and a Contributing Editor at the Financial Times where she writes a weekly OpEd column. Her awards include Wincott Senior Financial Journalist of the year, and the Paul Foot award for investigative journalism.

She was Head of the Prime Minister’s UK Policy Unit under David Cameron. Previously a Non-Executive Director of the Care Quality Commission, and an author of the 2013 Cavendish Review, an independent review for the Department of Health, into junior nursing staff and care workers. In 2020 Camilla became a temporary adviser to the Secretary of State for Health during the COVID-19 pandemic and delivered an internal review on social care reform in October 2020.

Camilla helped to found the lobby group London First and was CEO of the South Bank Employers’ Group, a public-private joint venture which regenerated parts of London’s south bank. She also chairs the non-profit Frontline, which puts talented graduates into social work.