Camilla Cavendish, Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice

The Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice
Official portrait, 2024
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
6 September 2016
Life peerage
Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit
In office
21 May 2015  13 July 2016
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byJo Johnson
Succeeded byJohn Godfrey
Personal details
Born
Hilary Camilla Cavendish

(1968-08-20) 20 August 1968
Political partyNon-affiliated (since December 2016)
Conservative (formerly)
SpouseHuw van Steenis
Children3
Parent(s)Richard Cavendish
J.M. Cavendish
Alma materBrasenose College, Oxford (PPE)
Harvard University (MPA)

Hilary Camilla Cavendish, Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice (born 20 August 1968) is a British journalist, contributing editor and columnist at The Financial Times, senior fellow at Harvard University and former director of policy for Prime Minister 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.