Camilla Cavendish
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice |
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| Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit | |
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In office 21 May 2015 – 13 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Jo Johnson |
| Succeeded by | George Freeman |
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| Born |
Hilary Camilla Cavendish 20 August 1968 |
| Political party | Non-affiliated (since December 2016) Conservative (formerly) |
| Spouse(s) | Huw van Steenis |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater |
Brasenose College, Oxford Harvard University |
Hilary Camilla Cavendish, Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice (born 20 August 1968) is a British journalist and former policy adviser to David Cameron. Cavendish became a Conservative member of the House of Lords in Cameron's resignation honours, but resigned the party whip in December 2016 to sit as a non-affiliated peer.
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. At university, she was a contemporary of David Cameron. She 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 (MPA).
From 2002 until 2012 she worked at The Times where she was Associate Editor, columnist and in 2010 Chief Leader Writer.
She then moved to The Sunday Times from 2012 to May 2015. She has worked as a McKinsey management consultant, an aid worker (Source needed) , 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.
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